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I am trying to setup trunk between those two (ESXi 6.5 with HP 1820-48G) and nothing seems to work.

I have read vmware kb article (can not insert link) and no luck.

These are my setup options, brute forced them all and nothing is any good. I am either not getting connection or there are strange problems with connection out and resolving dns.

ESXi options:

Switch options:

Cant really do much debugging... is it even possible?

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    There's no reason to run link-aggregation on ESXi _unless_ you're using a distributed switch (which requires vSphere and top-tier licensing). What problem are you looking to solve with this? – ewwhite Mar 09 '17 at 21:11
  • This single host is sandbox for testing so I wanted to add more bandwidth for moving stuff around – johnymachine Mar 09 '17 at 21:13

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Unfortunately, your goal of adding bandwidth really won't work the way you expect.

See: VMware NIC Teaming - How to gain more than 1Gbit/s copy speed between two VMs?

If more bandwidth is required, you'll have to move to 10GbE networking.

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  • I understand that I cannot exceed 1Gbit on single transfer, but I expect more people connecting to several vms. Improving that is my goal, maybe I expressed myself poorly... – johnymachine Mar 09 '17 at 22:00
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    People ask this type of question often. In practice, nobody does this. If you need to transfer > 120MB/s in aggregate, static link-aggregation in ESXi won't do it for you. – ewwhite Mar 10 '17 at 00:41