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LAGS and VLans between Aruba 8320 CX and VMWare ESXi 8.0

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  • 1.  LAGS and VLans between Aruba 8320 CX and VMWare ESXi 8.0

    Posted 3 days ago

    Good Morning...

    I'm trying to understand why these networks/devices aren't talking.

    On the Aruba 8320, vlan 201 is my default vlan, while the other vlans 2,4,6,8,10 all contain other traffic.

    All the vlans are defined similarly... 

    interface vlan 2
        ip address 10.2.2.1/24

    interface 1/1/9
        description ESXI-vmnic0
        no shutdown
        no routing
        vlan trunk native 201 tag
        vlan trunk allowed all
    interface 1/1/10
        description ESXI-vmnic1
        no shutdown
        no routing
        vlan trunk native 201 tag
        vlan trunk allowed all
    interface 1/1/11
        description ESXI-MGMT-vmnic2
        no shutdown
        no routing
        vlan access 201

    Interface 1/1/11 works perfectly, and allows me access to ESXi

    ESXi 8.0 Host - vmnic0 (10G), vmnic0 (10G), vmnic2 (mgmt)

    vmnic2 is attached to vSwitch0 and vmk0 attached to that. No VLANS defined.

    vmnic0 is attached to vSwitch1.

    vSwitch1 has a Port-Group for each vlan (PG-VLAN-201, PG-VLAN-2, PG-VLAN-4, PG-VLAN-6, etc.) and each Port-Group is defined with a respective VLAN tag. 

    Currently I have 7 VMs all in PG-VLAN-201 and None are accessible. 

    Ideally... I would love to have a 1/1/9 and 1/1/10 Connected to vSwitch1, and have all the VLANS talking through that.

    (Connecting to vSwitch1 is easy, but configuring with VLANS has me scratching my head.)

    But I'm missing the knowledge of how to accomplish this. Can someone point me in the right direction?


    Thanks.

    Piet



  • 2.  RE: LAGS and VLans between Aruba 8320 CX and VMWare ESXi 8.0

    MVP GURU
    Posted 2 days ago

    Hi Piet

    You don't need to use LAG (LACP) on VMware ESXi

    Your configuration will be work (you need to add vmnic1 to vSwitch1)

    it is always recommanded to enable spanning edge port on interface with ESX.



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