Are there any reasons why I should not rely on LACP when designing network topology? I exactly mean L2 switch to hypervisor connection, so it is the place where agregated traffic of VMs cumulates. We are talking about 5 x 1 GbE LACP bonding.
I am in disagreement with my colleague. He says: "Why we should add another layer of overhead to entire setup? It is just another potential point of failure." And he is overall sceptic about link aggregation. I have an opinion that linux bonding driver in 802.3ad mode is reliable and good choice.
He also thinks that we dont need it, because there won´t ever be such a big traffic in our environment, that simple 1 GbE will be enough. We are high school with about 100 PC clients and about 10 servers in our LAN.
So we are in situation when we exactly don´t know weather we need LACP or not. Some additional data about network traffic would be fine, but I believe it is challenging to retrieve meaningful numbers. So it is finally easier to rely on intuition and just say: "Yes, we want LACP, to be sure, because of traffic." or "No, because it is not reliable and we don´t need it."
Any suggestions?