A customer has provided the following network requirements to their consultant during a discovery session...

To satisfy the customer's requirements for maximum uptime and throughput in an AHV cluster deployment with link aggregation at the Top-of-Rack (TOR) switches, the consultant should:

Bonded 2 x 40GbE Adapters with LACP Enabled for Storage Traffic and Guest Traffic using balance-tcp: This configuration leverages Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) to combine the bandwidth of the two 40GbE adapters, enhancing both redundancy and throughput. The balance-tcp mode ensures effective load balancing of traffic based on TCP session ensuring optimal use of available bandwidth and improved fault tolerance.

References:

Nutanix Bible (https://www.nutanixbible.com ), particularly the sections discussing network configurations and LACP.

Nutanix University: NCS-Core 6.8 Training (https://university.nutanix.com ), which covers advanced network settings for performance optimization.