Quote Originally Posted by dweberwr
So in my scenario then, where I want to have all 8 gig ports "bonded" using 802.3ad,lacp, will that create a single logical interface to give me the most throughput.?
any type of bonding (lacp, or 802.3 specifically) will use some type of xor/xand that only works best when you have:

lots of sources and lots of destinations
lots of sources and a single destination
lots of different types of traffic

the algorithm (depending upon the switch) uses the least significant bits of either the source/dest mac or the source/dest ip to determine which interface to use. Some can even use TCP ports.

If your goal is to increase I/Os and throughput, I'd suggest you look into MPIO. I have several VI clusters and this has worked very well for us. We see roughly a 30 - 40% improvement across two interfaces.