How to make aggregated ports on Proliant DL120/180 G6?

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VMware

Hello!
There is a Proliant180, how to aggregate its ports (2x1gb / s) to get more serious speed?
It has VmWare EXSi on it, maybe you can do it with it?

Answer 1

In ProLinat of those generations, as far as I remember, there are Broadcomm network cards that can "hardware" LACP, but to enable and configure aggregation, you need an original driver with a management console.
In cases with ESXi, you will have to configure aggregation using VMWare itself, but here, as usual, not everything is simple either.
If you have ESXi 5.1 or older, preferably 5.5 or older, and have a cluster, then using vSphere you can configure LACP for uplinks.
If not, then the aggregation is only static - see here https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/searc...