I have a chassis situation where every node has dual 10Gb. The pair of chassis network switches are a vLAG pair and the pair of internal ports for each node are set to dynamic LACP. So when any host OS gets installed you immediately create a LACP team\bond and assign the vlan ID with IP to the interface to get on the network. This works great for Unix, Linux, Windows, but I can't seem to get ESXi to install and function like this. I need the management IP on the LACP. It looks like ESXi first needs a non-LACP interface to create a management connection to vcenter before I can create and convert to a dvs LACP interface? right? Is there a way I can do this through CLI to get my management interface online with LACP?
The only way I have found that currently works is to:
reconfigure the network switches to disable LACP on the interfaces to that particular node;
configure ESXi with normal management vswitch interface;
join it to vCenter;
Migrate the ports and management to a VDS;
configure the uplinks for LACP;
reconfigure the network switches to enable LACP on the interfaces to that particular node;
This means admins make network switch interfaces changes multiple times everytime a new ESXi server is installed or server is reloaded with ESXi. right?