Vnic will get its own mac address
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> From: Nicholas Solter <Nicholas.Solter at Sun.COM>
> Cc: ha-clusters-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Sent: 28/10/'09, 12:39
>
> Tundra Slosek wrote:
>> Looking over various posts, including my own headaches, I have a
>> question:
>>
>> If I don't want to dedicate a NIC to the private interconnect, should
>> the private interconnect be setup as a VLAN (with 'dladm create-vlan') or
>> as a VNIC (with 'dladm create-vnic')? If my switch supports VLAN tagging,
>> then does 'dladm create-vlan -l e1000g0 -v 21 vnic0' create exactly the
>> same results as 'dladm create-vnic -l e1000g0 -v 21 vnic0' - or are there
>> important differences for the heartbeat/private interconnect?
>
> Tundra,
>
> Here's an answer from one of our networking experts:
>
> The main difference is that with VNICs, a high priority (dladm command)
> could be assigned so that all cluster interconnect traffic gets higher
> priority treatment. It is not clear how this can be done with the basic
> VLAN method.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
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