On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 1:08 AM, John Florian <jflorian@doubledog.org> wrote:

I'm trying to get a 3.6.1 HE setup going where I have 4 VLANs (VIDs 101-104) for storage networks, 1 VLAN (VID 100) for ovirtmgmt and 1 more (VID 1) for everything else. Because I know of no way to manipulate the network configuration from the management GUI once the HE is running and with only a single Host, I made the OS configuration as close as possible to what I'd want when done. This looks like:

Why do you think of this necessary pre-work? I configured (in 3.6.0) an environment with HE too on a single host and I only preconfigured my bond1 in 802.3ad mode with the interfaces I planned to use for ovirtmgmt and I left the other interfaces unconfigured, so that all is not used by Network Manager.

During the "hosted-engine --deploy" setup I got this input:

           --== NETWORK CONFIGURATION ==--

          Please indicate a nic to set ovirtmgmt bridge on: (em1, bond1, em2) [em1]: bond1
          iptables was detected on your computer, do you wish setup to configure it? (Yes, No)[Yes]:
          Please indicate a pingable gateway IP address [10.4.168.254]:

and then on preview of configuration to apply:

          --== CONFIGURATION PREVIEW ==--

          Bridge interface                   : bond1
          Engine FQDN                        : ractorshe.mydomain.local
          Bridge name                        : ovirtmgmt

After setup I configured my vlan based networks for my VMS from the GUI itself as in the usual way, so that now I have this bond0 created by oVirt GUI on the other two interfaces (em1 and em2):

[root@ractor ~]# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)

Bonding Mode: IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation
Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0

802.3ad info
LACP rate: fast
Min links: 0
Aggregator selection policy (ad_select): stable
Active Aggregator Info:
    Aggregator ID: 2
    Number of ports: 2
    Actor Key: 17
    Partner Key: 8
    Partner Mac Address: 00:01:02:03:04:0c

Slave Interface: em1
MII Status: up
Speed: 1000 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:25:64:ff:0b:f0
Aggregator ID: 2
Slave queue ID: 0

Slave Interface: em2
MII Status: up
Speed: 1000 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:25:64:ff:0b:f2
Aggregator ID: 2
Slave queue ID: 0

And then "ip a" command returns:

9: bond0.65@bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master vlan65 state UP
    link/ether 00:25:64:ff:0b:f0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
10: vlan65: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
    link/ether 00:25:64:ff:0b:f0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

with
[root@ractor ~]# brctl show
bridge name    bridge id        STP enabled    interfaces
;vdsmdummy;        8000.000000000000    no
ovirtmgmt        8000.002564ff0bf4    no        bond1
                            vnet0
vlan65        8000.002564ff0bf0    no        bond0.65
                            vnet1
                            vnet2

vnet1 and vnet2 being the virtual network interfaces of my two running VMs.

The only note I can submit is that by default when you set a network in oVirt GUI with mode=4 (802.3ad), it defaults to configuring it with "lacp_rate=0" so slow, that I think it is bad, as I read in many articles (but I'm not a network guru at all)

So that I chose custom mode in the GUI and specified "mode=4 lacp_rate=1" in options and this was reflected in my configuration as you see above in bond0 output.

Can we set lacp_rate=1 as a default option for mode=4 in oVirt?

HIH,

Gianluca