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3 Navigate to the Teaming and Failover policy for the standard switch, or standard port group.
Option Action
Standard Switch a Select the switch from the list.
b Click Edit settings and select Teaming and failover.
Standard port group a Select the switch where the port group resides.
b From the switch topology diagram, select the standard port group and click
Edit settings.
c Select Teaming and failover.
d Select Override next to the policies that you want to override.
4 From the Load balancing drop-down menu, specify how the virtual switch load balances the
outgoing traffic between the physical NICs in a team.
Option Description
Route based on the originating virtual
port
Select an uplink based on the virtual port IDs on the switch. After the virtual
switch selects an uplink for a virtual machine or a VMkernel adapter, it always
forwards traffic through the same uplink for this virtual machine or VMkernel
adapter.
Route based on IP hash Select an uplink based on a hash of the source and destination IP addresses of
each packet. For non-IP packets, the switch uses the data at those fields to
compute the hash .
IP-based teaming requires that the physical switch is configured with
EtherChannel.
Route based on source MAC hash Select an uplink based on a hash of the source Ethernet.
Use explicit failover order From the list of active adapters, always use the highest order uplink that passes
failover detection criteria. No actual load balancing is performed with this option.
5 From the Network failure detection drop-down menu, select the method that the virtual switch uses
for failover detection.
Option Description
Link status only Relies only on the link status that the network adapter provides. This option
detects failures such as removed cables and physical switch power failures.
Beacon probing Sends out and listens for beacon probes on all NICs in the team, and uses this
information, in addition to link status, to determine link failure.ESXi sends beacon
packets every second.
The NICs must be in an active/active or active/standby configuration because the
NICs in an unused state do not participate in beacon probing.
6 From the Notify switches drop-down menu, select whether the standard or distributed switch notifies
the physical switch in case of a failover.
Note Set this option to No if a connected virtual machine is using Microsoft Network Load Balancing
in unicast mode. No issues exist with Network Load Balancing running in multicast mode.
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