There are a variety ways of configuring networking within Equinix Metal environments, and the following procedure is by no means the only option. But it achieves a few things:
- Redundancy of VM network
- Removal of public IPs
- Redundancy of iSCSI network
This configuration will end up in Layer 2 bonded mode, which means that the final state of the ESXi host will be using a Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS) with LACP enabled with both metal network interfaces in the VDS LACP bond.