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Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is a NIC-teaming configuration that balances network traffic based on source/destination IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports. LACP allows the administrator to configure multiple NICs as a single logical NIC, known as a Link Aggregation Group (LAG), which can increase the available bandwidth and provide redundancy. LACP uses a hashing algorithm to distribute traffic across the NICs in the LAG, based on the source and destination IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports. This ensures that traffic is evenly distributed across the NICs, which helps to improve overall network performance and availability.

B. Active-Active with LACP. https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2071-AHV-Networking:lacp-and-link-aggregation.html

Active-Active. All the interfaces in the bond are active. Traffic is balanced among adapters based on source and destination addresses and TCP and UDP ports. If you select this option, you must manually enable LAG and LACP on the corresponding ToR switch for each node in the cluster one after the other. See Enabling LAG and LACP on the ToR Switch (AHV Only) for more information.

b https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=BP-2071-AHV-Networking:lacp-and-link-aggregation.html