Good Afternoon,
I am trying to understand the best course of action when installing a new ESXi host and then planning to move it to the VDS leveraging a LACP LAG. The migration to the VDS and all of that is really straight forward. My questions revolve around "pre-configured" ports on a Cisco switch that are already both in the LACP bundle. lets use one host for crude example.
Install esxi, set IPs, VLAN tag and then cable in my 10G links to my ToR switches. Well since the host is not online yet and not part of vcenter or the VDS how would I get this host online if both uplinks were in a pre-configured LACP configuration?
Would I just cable in 1, 10G link and then set the VSS to route based on IP hash? Then swing that interface over to the VDS and LACP? Been thinking about this quite a bit today and curious if there is a way to achieve this without disabling half of that LACP config on the switch and making that a plain old trunked interface? Any input would be appreciated.