As long as you keep the LAG/Bond on the hypervisor in good shape and you don't provision ports to the VMs that could result in a bridge of those interfaces, you should be fine for STP.

The Spanning Tree Protocol, sometimes just referred to as Spanning Tree, is the Waze or MapQuest of modern Ethernet networks, directing traffic along the most efficient route based on real-time ...

Because many network administrators still do not fully comprehend how spanning tree works, vendors try to create solutions to help minimize STP issues.

I have thousands of ports deployed in outdoor environments (WISP stuff), and switching from UTP to STP several years ago has reduced port failures by >95% across the network.

Spanning tree protocol is an essential function of Ethernet networks, and it provides several useful capabilities when used properly. However, STP can cause havoc when a network carrying live video is ...