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Need redundancy design help please..

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Hello, I would very much appreciate some input from you guys regarding this failover/redundancy design, will it work in the real world?

- i'm using hardware available to me and not looking for any extra purchases
- i'm looking to either improve the design (if the current one won't work) or remove pix(b) and switch(b) altogether and keep them as a cold backup

- esxi host has dual onboard nic and a quad nic addon card
- i would like to setup etherchannel with each cisco switch (in case one dies)
- and then interconnect the switches themselves and also with the 2 cisco pixes
- the pixes aren't capable of a failover so I will need to fail things over manually (by changing default routes on the vm guests)
- please see the image below for a visual example of how things would be connected
- i'm assuming that spanning tree will take care of things should one or more of the links fail :) (or not?)

- i sort of got the idea from here: Sample configuration of EtherChannel / Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) with ESXi/ESX and Cisco/HP switches (1004048)

Thank you very much in advance for looking and any advice!

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think about nic timming.

I am able to fully confogure your network.
 
I wouldn't bother with a port-channel/Etherchannel. Just connect the NICs. Put them in the same vSwitch. And use the default teaming method for basic load distribution.
 
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