We're implementing a pretty large VMware project soon and I am required to determine mean time to failover metrics for various parts of our network. The bottom most network related component is our server NICs, which we will have in Active/Active NIC Teaming configurations for our ESXi 5.1 vSwitches. Does anyone know if we can expect any packets and/or connections to be dropped between the time a NIC in the team were to go out and the other NIC to pick up its traffic load? Has anyone performed any ping tests in a failover scenerio? I'm curious as to your findings. (PS: wish we had a non-production system to test this on).
Thanks!
Logan