[ovirt-users] bonding mode-alb

Demeter Tibor tdemeter at itsmart.hu
Fri Jan 26 12:44:44 UTC 2018


Dear Luca, 

Sorry for the very late reply.. 

I want to try out now your mentions. 
Should I make an interconnect the two switches in active/backup mode? 
Thanks! 

Tibor 

----- 2017. dec.. 12., 19:35, Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto <lorenzetto.luca at gmail.com> írta: 

> Hi,

> If you're looking at a simple ha bonding setup, why not using active-backup
> (mode 1)?

> We're using it in almost all our setups and switches toin backup interface in
> 100ms when a link down is detected (Setting miimon=100).

> Doesn't aggregate bandwidth but is a very good solution for high availability
> whwn you can't configure lacp or a portchannel on switch side.

> Luca

> Il 12 dic 2017 7:06 PM, "Demeter Tibor" < [ mailto:tdemeter at itsmart.hu |
> tdemeter at itsmart.hu ] > ha scritto:

>> Hi,

>> Thanks for the answers.

>> In this case the only question is: what is better for me? Mode 5 or 6?
>> In which modes how is fast the switching?

>> Until now I've use 802.3ad lacp on our old cluster. I did some tests and it was
>> very fast. I know it is not same, but mode 5 or 6 how is safe?
>> Thanks

>> Regards,

>> Tibor

>> ----- 2017. dec.. 11., 13:24, Simone Tiraboschi < [ mailto:stirabos at redhat.com |
>> stirabos at redhat.com ] > írta:

>>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Demeter Tibor < [ mailto:tdemeter at itsmart.hu |
>>> tdemeter at itsmart.hu ] > wrote:

>>>> Hi,

>>>> Could help anyone for me in this question?

>>>> Thanks.

>>>> R.

>>>> Tibor

>>>> ----- 2017. dec.. 6., 14:07, Demeter Tibor < [ mailto:tdemeter at itsmart.hu |
>>>> tdemeter at itsmart.hu ] > írta:

>>>>> Dear members,

>>>>> I would like to use two switch to make high-availability network connection for
>>>>> my nfs storage.
>>>>> Unfortunately, these switches does not support [ http://802.3.ad/ | 802.3.ad ]
>>>>> lacp, (really I can't stack them) but I've read about mode-alb and mode-tlb
>>>>> bonding modes.
>>>>> I know,these modes are available in ovirt, but how is work that? Also how is
>>>>> safe? Are there for HA or for load balance?

>>>>> I've read some forums, where does not recommended these modes to use in ovirt.
>>>>> What is the truths?
>>>>> I would like to use only for storage-traffic, it will be separated from other
>>>>> network traffic. I have two 10Gbe switches and two 10Gbe ports in my nodes.

>>> Look here:
>>> [ https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Logical_Networks/#bonds-1
>>> |
>>> https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Logical_Networks/#bonds-1
>>> ]

>>> "Important: Modes 1, 2, 3, and 4 support both virtual machine (bridged) and
>>> non-virtual machine (bridgeless) network types. Modes 0, 5 and 6 support
>>> non-virtual machine (bridgeless) networks only.¨

>>> So both tlb (mode 5) or alb (mode 6) are fine only if you use them just for the
>>> storage access but not for VMs.

>>>>> Thanks in advance,

>>>>> R

>>>>> Tibor

>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Users mailing list
>>>>> [ mailto:Users at ovirt.org | Users at ovirt.org ]
>>>>> [ http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users |
>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ]

>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Users mailing list
>>>> [ mailto:Users at ovirt.org | Users at ovirt.org ]
>>>> [ http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users |
>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ]

>> _______________________________________________
>> Users mailing list
>> [ mailto:Users at ovirt.org | Users at ovirt.org ]
>> [ http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users |
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ]
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20180126/8716f31d/attachment.html>


More information about the Users mailing list