Tech-Gen

vSwitch Load Balancing Policies in VMware  It is important to understand the Network Load balancing policies that we have in ESXi and How the vSwitch is going to handle the Load across the Physical Network card that we configured in a NIC team. To start with the same, there were about 5 Network Load balancing policies we have in ESXi, as listed below. Route based on originating virtual port ID Route based on IP hash Route based on source MAC hash Use Explicit fail-over order Route based on physical NIC load (Only available for Distributed Switch)   Its very important to understand how each of these policies work when multiple physical configured in a NIC team for a given vSwitch or a dvSwitch. So lets get started. Route based on originating virtual port ID This  Route based on originating virtual port ID is the default policy . The virtual machine outbound traffic is mapped to a specific physical Network Card based on the virtual port ID to whi...