Hi everyone,
We chose not to bond the NICs because we'd heard this does not scale the
bandwidth linearly. To keep performance of the network high we wanted to
allow the load to be spread across multiple links and multipath seemed the
best way.
The iSCSI setup suggested by the article
If you bond between two different switches, you'll only be able to do
failover between the NICs. If you use multipath, you can round-robin
between them to provide a greater bandwidth overhead.
Same goes for bonding: link aggregation with active-active bonding.
active-active bonding across
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 02:18:39PM -0700, Alex Kompel wrote:
I would not use multipath I/O with iSCSI unless you have specific
reasons for doing so. iSCSI is only as highly-available as you network
infrastructure allows it to be. If you have a full failover within the
network then you don't
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 02:18:39PM -0700, Alex Kompel wrote:
I would not use multipath I/O with iSCSI unless you have specific
reasons for doing so. iSCSI is only as highly-available as you network
infrastructure allows
Hi Alex,
We wanted an iSCSI SAN that has highly available data, hence the need
for 2 (or more storage devices) and a reliable storage network (omitted
from the diagram). Many of the articles I have read for iSCSI don't
address multipathing to the iSCSI devices, in our configuration iSCSI
Alex Kompel wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Michael O'Sullivan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your response Wendy. Please see a diagram of the system at
http://www.ndsg.net.nz/ndsg_cluster.jpg/view (or
http://www.ndsg.net.nz/ndsg_cluster.jpg/image_view_fullscreen for the
Michael O'Sullivan wrote:
Hi Alex,
We wanted an iSCSI SAN that has highly available data, hence the need
for 2 (or more storage devices) and a reliable storage network
(omitted from the diagram). Many of the articles I have read for iSCSI
don't address multipathing to the iSCSI devices, in
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Michael O'Sullivan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your response Wendy. Please see a diagram of the system at
http://www.ndsg.net.nz/ndsg_cluster.jpg/view (or
http://www.ndsg.net.nz/ndsg_cluster.jpg/image_view_fullscreen for the
fullscreen view) that (I
Thanks for your response Wendy. Please see a diagram of the system at
http://www.ndsg.net.nz/ndsg_cluster.jpg/view (or
http://www.ndsg.net.nz/ndsg_cluster.jpg/image_view_fullscreen for the
fullscreen view) that (I hope) explains the setup. We are not using FC
as we are building the SAN with
