Deployment Guide

28 ScaleIO/VxFlex OS IP Fabric Best Practice and Deployment Guide with OS10EE | version 1.0
LAGs created on the VDS
3.3.7 Associate hosts and assign uplinks
Hosts and their vmnics must be associated with each vSphere-distributed switch.
All traffic uses the LAG uplinks to take advantage of the improved bandwidth usage and failover behavior the
VLT feature provides. This section details configuration of the uplinks.
Note: Before starting this section, be sure you know the vmnic-to-physical adapter mapping for each host.
Determine this mapping by going to Home > Hosts and Clusters and selecting the host in the Navigator
pane. In the center pane, select Configure > Networking > Physical adapters. This example uses vmnics
0, 1, 4, and 5. Vmnic numbering varies depending on adapters installed in the host.
To add hosts to the VDS, complete the following steps:
1. On the web client Home screen, select Networking.
2. Right click on ScaleIO VDS and select Add and Manage Hosts.
3. In the Add and Manage Hosts dialog box:
a. On the Select task page, make sure Add hosts is selected. Click Next.
b. On the Select hosts page, Click the New hosts icon. Select the check box next to each host
in the ScaleIO cluster. Click OK > Next.
c. On the Select network adapters tasks page, be sure the Manage physical adapters box is
checked. Be sure all other boxes are unchecked. Click Next.
d. On the Manage physical network adapters page, each host is listed with its vmnics beneath it.