Recently I bought a Dell PowerConnect 5224 off of ebay (brand new!) for a decent price. It is a 24 port Gigabit managed ethernet switch (has 4 SPF’s?). Hoping to use this for my virtual hypervisor servers and with my open filer storage. I’m also hoping I can connect my BayStack switch that I also have that has vlan support up as well, and that these two switches will be the backbone of my network. My plan is to use Bay switch for the 100Mbit stuff and the 5224 for the items that support 1Gb.
Having issues trying to figure out how to setup Trunking or LAG of some sort between the 5224 and 4 ports on my Sun server that is currently running VMWare ESXi 4.1.0.
Time to review what I’m trying to do and match it up with the correct terminology