LACP and vSphere 5.1

LACP is the new feature introduced in new vSphere 5.1 VDS (vSphere Distributed Switch).

With that there are some articles published out by VMware for the issues involved with it.

The articles are listed below.

Enabling or disabling LACP on an Uplink Port Group using the vSphere Web Client (2034277)      

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2034277

LACP is enabled for Virtual Distributed Switch (2036296)      

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036296

Inconsistent uplink speeds disable LACP (2036303)

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036303    

LACP cannot be enabled (2034683)     

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2034683

Inactive uplinks disable LACP (2036302)  

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036302  

Duplicate packets or packet loss when using using LACP (2034807)     

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2034807

Inconsistent uplink duplex modes disable LACP (2036304)      

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036304

LACP is disabled for Virtual Distributed Switch (2036299)  

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036299  

Cannot enable LACP because of incompatible teaming policy (2036300) 

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036300  

No peer response from uplink disables LACP (2036305)     

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036305

Uplink moved out of link aggregation group (2036306)     

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036306

Uplink blocked on virtual distributed switch (2036308)      

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036308

Uplink unblocked on virtual distributed switch (2036309)     

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036309

Uplink disconnected on virtual distributed switch (2036310)    

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036310

Uplink connected on virtual distributed switch (2036311)   

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2036311

@chriswahl has put up a nice video on configuring LACP here.


Enjoy working with LACP