We're moving to 5.1 this month (side-by-side migration, not an upgrade), with new hosts, and this is a good time to revisit our networking practices.
We're using Dell blades, with four 10 GB NICs in each, split between two physical switches (two connections to each physical switch).
We use quite a bit of NFS for our storage, so we have to keep that in mind with our networking.
My original plan was to have a standard vSwitch (with two physical NICs) on each host for management, vmotion and NFS, and a distributed switch (with two physical NICs) for VM traffic.
But since 5.1 now supports LACP, would it make more sense to just make just one big port-channel with all 4 NICs and use a distributed switch for everything? (Each type of traffic does have it's own VLAN)
Thanks for any input.
