Adding Additional NIC to LTM VE

OK, here's what I've done. I've created a VLAN Trunk port group in vSphere and told it that the VLAN ID range is 10-21. I've then assigned two of the interfaces on the Big IP VE to that port group. On the Big IP VE, I've created a trunk with those two interfaces and left all settings as default. I've then attempted to create a VLAN with a "tag" of 10 and assign the trunk to the untagged interfaces. When I attempt to do so, I receive the error message "01070734:3: Configuration error: vmw-compat: vlan member type must be an interface".

 

 

I'm obviously missing something somewhere and I can't figure out what it is.

 

 

All I want to be able to do is create multiple VLANs on the Big IP VE and assign them specific IDs and then have those VLANs route out over any of the three available NICs. Seems simple, but it's proving to be much more complicated than it would seem.

 

 

Jason, you can't assign 4095 to the virtual machine port group. The allowed VLAN IDs are 1-4094. I don't know how you're assigning 4095 to a port group. Your VLAN options when creating a port group are "None, VLAN, VLAN Trunk, and Private VLAN". Selecting VLAN allows you to put in a value between 1 and 4094. Using VLAN Trunk allows you to specify a range. Private VLAN requires that you have a Private VLAN configured on your vSwitch.