[ovirt-users] NIC Bonding

[Edward Haas]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Petr Horacek <phoracek at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello Bryan,
>
> I'm afraid it is not possible with oVirt. You can only attach NICs to a
> bonding via the way Arthur suggested.
>
> Regards,
> Petr
>
> 2017-11-09 16:41 GMT+02:00 Bryan Sockel <Bryan.Sockel at altn.com>:
>
>> I have a similar setup i am trying to achieve, but i would like to create
>> 2 bonds to increase the bandwith and then configure 1 bond as a backup to
>> the primary.  Is there some way to do this?
>>
>
I would argue that such a setup is problematic. The bond link goes down
only when all its slaves are down, therefore, if you loose one slave, the
BW is decreased and the backup will not take over.
Using 3 or 4 slaves bond can allow you to get both increased BW and
redundancy.

Thanks,
Edy.


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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Arthur Melo <arthur at afabrica.net>
>> To: magnus.isaksson at ilw.se
>> Cc: users <users at ovirt.org>
>> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 10:18:03 -0200
>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] NIC Bonding
>>
>> Just drag and drop NICs then configure it to active/backup! :)
>>
>> Atenciosamente,
>> Arthur Melo
>> Linux User #302250
>>
>>
>> 2017-11-06 8:15 GMT-02:00 <magnus.isaksson at ilw.se>:
>>>
>>> Hello!
>>> I'm new(-ish) to oVirt and have a question regarding network.
>>> I currently use vmware, the hosts have 4 nic each and connected to two
>>> switches in stack(extreme), i have two vSwitch with two nic each setup in
>>> active/standby, with this i don't have to do anything with the physical
>>> switch.
>>> So how do i do this setup on oVirt so i don't need to configure the
>>> switches?
>>> I know how to bond the cards, but i am afraid of a switchloop, so i just
>>> want to make sure that does not happen.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Magnus Isaksson
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