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2 Navigate the Teaming and Failover policy on the distributed port group or port.
Option Action
Distributed port group a From the Actions menu, select Distributed Port Group > Manage
Distributed Port Groups.
b Select Teaming and failover.
c Select the port group and click Next.
Distributed port a On the Networks tab, click Distributed Port Groups and double-click a
distributed port group.
b On the Ports tab, select a port and click Edit distributed port settings.
c Select Teaming and failover.
d Select Override next to the properties that you want to override.
3 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.
Route based on physical NIC load Available for distributed port groups or distributed ports. Select an uplink based
on the current load of the physical network adapters connected to the port group
or port. If an uplink remains busy at 75 percent or higher for 30 seconds, the host
proxy switch moves a part of the virtual machine traffic to a physical adapter that
has free capacity.
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.
4 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.
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