Re: [ovirt-users] iSCSI VLAN host connections - bond or multipath & IPv6

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:01 PM Ben Bradley <listsbb(a)virtx.net&gt; wrote: > Hi All > > I'm looking to add a new host to my oVirt lab installation. > I'm going to share out some LVs from a separate box over iSCSI and will > hook the new host up to that. > I have 2 NICs on the storage host and 2 NICs on the new Ovirt host to > dedicate to the iSCSI traffic. > I also have 2 separate switches so I'm looking for redundancy here. Both > iSCSI host and oVirt host plugged into both switches. > > If this was non-iSCSI traffic and without oVirt I would create bonded > interfaces in active-backup mode and layer the VLANs on top of that. > > But for iSCSI traffic without oVirt involved I wouldn't bother with a > bond and just use multipath. > > From scanning the oVirt docs it looks like there is an option to have > oVirt configure iSCSI multipathing. > > So what's the best/most-supported option for oVirt? > oVirt support only multipath devices, so the best way is to use multipath features. > Manually create active-backup bonds so oVirt just sees a single storage > link between host and storage? > This will always be on top of multipath device, giving you the same capabilities, so why would you want to do that?

> Or leave them as separate interfaces on each side and use oVirt's > multipath/bonding? > Yes. > > Also I quite like the idea of using IPv6 for the iSCSI VLAN, purely down > to the fact I could use link-local addressing and not have to worry > about setting up static IPv4 addresses or DHCP. Is IPv6 iSCSI supported > by oVirt? > > Thanks, Ben > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users