ESXi 5.5 and Teaming on Cisco Switches (VLANs)

 

Create a basic port channel


interface Port-channel1
description ESX Port Channel
switchport mode trunk

interface GigabitEthernet0/8
description ESX team
channel-group 1 mode on
spanning-tree portfast trunk

interface GigabitEthernet0/9
description ESX team
channel-group 1 mode on
spanning-tree portfast trunk

Configure NIC teaming (Configuration – Network – Properties – vSwitch Properties) with the following settings


Load Balancing: Route based on IP address

Network Failover Detection: Link status only

Notify Switche: Yes

Failback: No

 

When you’re happy with the results, update your Management network settings to use NIC teaming as well.

 

Raspberry PI Phone Home

This can be done on any systemd based system, this example is on a Raspberry PI running Raspbian (jessie).

# apt-get install autossh

Generate SSH key and copy it over

# ssh-keygen

# ssh-copy-id root@server

Create /etc/systemd/system/autossh.service

 


[Unit]
Description=AutoSSH service
After=network.target

[Service]
User=root
Environment=AUTOSSH_PIDFILE=/tmp/autossh.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/autossh -M 0 -f -N -T -q -o ServerAliveInterval=30 -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 -R 9993:localhost:22 root@server
PIDFile=/tmp/autossh.pid
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Reload systemd

# systemctl daemon-reload

Enable/Start Service

# systemctl enable autossh

# systemctl start autossh

Now from “server” you should be able to reach your PI

# ssh localhost -p 9993