Re: Bonding interfaces

2009-12-03 Thread Ciprian Marius Vizitiu (GBIF)
OK, my mistake then; I should have written "LACP on the switch stack". I mean if I have a multi blade switch (which came with the enclosure) and the server room is so small that I can actually hook the SAN with multiple wires to the said switch stack... why not? I'm asking because I haven't se

Re: Bonding interfaces

2009-12-03 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 3 Dec 2009 at 12:04, Ciprian Marius Vizitiu (GBIF) wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Just wondering if anybody's got any experience with the bonding driver > (and LACP on the switch) used as an iSCSI path? "OK"? "Don't do > it!"? "Yes, but..."? We use bonding and iSCSI, but not both combined.

Re: Bonding interfaces

2009-12-03 Thread Morten Johansen
Hi I would say "Yes, but..." :-) I imagine it would give you High Avaliability against your switch, and possibly double the throughput. But using separate NICs, separate switches and DM-Multipath would give you the same thing, only all the way through to the SAN. Den 3 Dec, 2009 kl. 12:04 sk

Bonding interfaces

2009-12-03 Thread Ciprian Marius Vizitiu (GBIF)
Hi everybody, Just wondering if anybody's got any experience with the bonding driver (and LACP on the switch) used as an iSCSI path? "OK"? "Don't do it!"? "Yes, but..."? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group