meowserkat
Cadet
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- Apr 20, 2019
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So...I read some older posts for LACP and nothing really gave me the indication that it worked or not, there were a bunch of 'try this or that' but nothing that I felt concrete to say LACP does or not not fully work.
I just bought a 'XYRATEX IBM HS-1235E 12 BAY RAID Server XEON L5410 2.3GHz / 16GB / 12TB' from ebay. The unit came with Freenas 11.1-U7. I swapped out the drives with a bunch of 2TB I had from an old Lacie NAS that died. The unit came with 2 onboard NICs, and two 4-port NICS, along with two dual SPF cards with fiber. I pulled the fiber and left the two 4-port NIC. I took one of the onboard NICs and added it to my VLAN for servers. I took 1 port off each of the 4 ports and added it to my VLAN for my ESXi hosts.
On my Cisco 3560 I setup a port-channel mode Active for those two ports on the ESXI VLAN. Inside Freenas I enabled LACP on the two NICs that came up on the ESXi VLAN. Once I did this I lost all access to the Freenas. I was using the Server VLAN IP of the onboard NIC to mange the Freenas at the time. The only way I was able to get access back to the Freenas was to delete the LAGG interface from the console.
I just bought a 'XYRATEX IBM HS-1235E 12 BAY RAID Server XEON L5410 2.3GHz / 16GB / 12TB' from ebay. The unit came with Freenas 11.1-U7. I swapped out the drives with a bunch of 2TB I had from an old Lacie NAS that died. The unit came with 2 onboard NICs, and two 4-port NICS, along with two dual SPF cards with fiber. I pulled the fiber and left the two 4-port NIC. I took one of the onboard NICs and added it to my VLAN for servers. I took 1 port off each of the 4 ports and added it to my VLAN for my ESXi hosts.
On my Cisco 3560 I setup a port-channel mode Active for those two ports on the ESXI VLAN. Inside Freenas I enabled LACP on the two NICs that came up on the ESXi VLAN. Once I did this I lost all access to the Freenas. I was using the Server VLAN IP of the onboard NIC to mange the Freenas at the time. The only way I was able to get access back to the Freenas was to delete the LAGG interface from the console.