LAG/NIC Teaming with VRTX and VMware ESXi

I have a VRTX blade server with 3 blades. I am trying to maximize bandwidth throughput to the blades. I have several VM's across all 3 blades. Some of the VM's have E1000E NIC, some of them have VMXNET3. The ones with VMXNET3 on Blades 1 and 2 are reporting 4Gb/s network speed. The VM's on Blade 3 (and VM's with E1000E) are reporting 1Gb/s speed. I understand overall throughput will be limited to the 4Gb/s because of my external ports on the VRTX 1Gb Switch Module. However, I'm aiming to max throughput to the server VM's themselves so if I am transferring data over the network from a VM on Blade 1 to a VM on Blade 3 I should get 2Gb/s speeds because Blade 3 only has 2 NICs. Regardless of which servers I am doing a network speed test on, it is always resulting in 1Gb/s.

My question is, do I need to enable LAG on the internal ports of the Switch Module to work with VMware NIC Teaming? Attached below is a diagram of how my switch LAG ports connect to the External Ports on the Switch Module using LAG in trunk mode. It also shows configuration of the Internal Ports and VMware switch settings for NIC Teaming.