I have read quite a few blogposts about configuration of ESXi uplinks. Many experts prefer LBT over LACP.
I am looking for some good arguments to use LBT over LACP in the following configuration :
- about 60 ESXi 6.5 hosts all with 4 x 10 GbE network adapters.
-Netapp NFS storage
-distributed switches
-single tenancy, all management done by same group of IT-admins
-no need for a single VM to consume over 10 Gb of bandwidth
-redundancy of network uplink required
-network traffic: VM lan, vMotion, HA, ESXI management, NFS datastores, iSCSI from guest OS
-keep it simple
I am wondering how well LBT is able to detect a link failure, cable error?
What about using host profiles and LACP. Works well?
What would be your preferred configuration?
One dvSwitch for all 4 nics, or 2 dvSwitches each having 2 nics? LACP or LBT?
Thanks for your help!