I am sure I am missing something fundamental here. I have been working with ESX 5.5 to setup a new deployment with virtual distributed switches using LACP (this is new to me). I seem to have run into an issue where following a vmotion the VM is no longer accessible from the network until I migrate the vm network to a portgroup on the local host. i.e. One portgroup per host which contains 4x 1gb ports configured for LACP.
So lets call this host A and host B and the VM linux. Both hosts have a 4 port LACP port group which resides in the same virtual distributed switch. linux has a network adapter in the h1-portgroup which contains the interfaces on host A. The h2-portgroup contains the interfaces on host B. When I vmotion a VM from host A to host B I lose network access to the VM until I go in and do a network migration for said VM from the host A port group to the host B port group. Essentially all this is doing is moving the network adapter to the h2-portgroup. I am not sure if my understanding of this is just flawed but when I do a vmmotion I expect, or would like, for the VM to re-associate its network adapter to the h2-portgroup.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.