Dell Products Inc.

Lifeng Zheng

Weilan Pu

Jianfei Yang

Si Zhang

Mingyi Luo

Srinivasa Raju Chamarthy

An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to receive, by at least one network switch, a communication comprising a virtual logical device tag. The processing device is also configured, responsive to determining that the virtual logical device tag is a host-specific virtual logical device tag associated with a given host-specific virtual logical device of a given host device that is part of a multi-host link aggregation bond, to direct the communication to a given link for the given host device. The processing device is further configured, responsive to determining that the virtual logical device tag is a service-generic virtual logical device tag for a service provided by host devices which are part of the multi-host link aggregation bond) collectively, to select one of the host devices in accordance with a distribution algorithm and to direct the communication to a selected link for the selected host device.

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Chengdu, China

Lifeng Zheng