David Davis explains how to configure EtherChannel to increase your bandwidth and provide redundancy on a Cisco network.

I am interested to hear how many other ESX customers are using etherchannel in your deployments and how large of an environment you have. If you do, have you always used it? If not, did you notice ...

NetApp can't negotiate LACP or PaGP. You need the etherchannel on. Also don't bother forcing speed and duplex on gig. You'll only cause problems eventually- negotiation is part of the standard. So ...