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6. Specify the number of physical ports that will be included in the LAG.
7. Specify the LACP mode—either Active or Passive, as we described earlier—that this LAG
should use.
8. Select a load-balancing mode. Note that this load-balancing mode affects only outbound
trafi c; inbound trafi c will be load balanced according to the load-balancing mode con-
i gured on the physical switch. (For best results and ease of troubleshooting, the coni gu-
ration here should match the coni guration on the physical switch where possible.)
9. If you need to override port policies for this LAG, you can do so at the bottom of this dia-
log box.
10. Click OK to create the new LAG and return to the LACP area of the vSphere Web Client.
Now that at least one LAG has been created, you need to assign physical adapters to it. To
do this, you'll follow the process we outlined earlier for managing physical adapters (see the
section titled “Managing Adapters” for the specii c details). The one change you'll note is that
when you click the Assign Uplink link for a selected physical adapter, you'll now see an option
to assign that adapter to one of the available uplink ports in the LAG(s) that you created. Figure
5.73 shows the dialog box for assigning an uplink for a distributed switch with two LAGs.
Figure 5.73
Once a LAG has
been created, physi-
cal adapters can be
added to it.
Once you've added physical adapters to the LAG(s), you can proceed with the i nal step:
coni guring the LAG(s) as uplinks for the distributed port groups on that distributed switch.
Specii c instructions for this process were given earlier in the section titled “Editing a
Distributed Port Group.” Note that the LAG(s) will appear as physical uplinks in the teaming
and failover coni guration, as you can see in Figure 5.74. You can assign the LAG as an active
uplink, a standby uplink, or an unused uplink.
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