Hoping to get some advice with NIC teaming. I have a classroom with four (dumb) Gig switches all daisy-chained together. Lab is on one subnet.
he ESXi servers I have all have four NICs. My thought is it team the four NICs using a standard VMware switch.
As for the physical cabling between the servers to the switches I originally thought of plugging NIC-0-3 all into the same switch. So NICs 0-3 would all be attached to physical switch 1.
But after thinking about it for a bit, I'm thinking it would be much better to have one of the teamed NICs cabled to one port in one of the four switches.
So NiC 0 -> S1, NIC1 -> S2, NIC2 -> S3 and NIC3 -> S4
I'm thinking if the switches are all daisy-chained together NIC teaming would not matter to any one plugged into switch 2, 3, or 4 as the uplink ports would limit them to gig. But if the are plugged into the four switches in theory I could have four students communicating to the same server at Gig speed.
Can any one think of a reason I would not want to do this? Or have a better idea?
Thanks