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On Oct 31, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Jaime Melis <jme...@opennebula.org> wrote: > Hello Donny, > > I have been doing a good bit of searching for the answer to this but cannot > seem to find a straight answer. My servers have 4 network cards each. > Currently I have them all bonded/trunked. How does OpenNebula handle this? I > want to redo my hosts and start fresh. Do I need to go ahead and do the > bond/trunk on the host manually or does OpenNebula handle that? > > using a bonded interface with OpenNebula is the same as using a regular > interface i.e. perform the network configuration first (including attaching > the bonded -or regular- interface to a bridge) and use that bridge in the > network configuration templates. In other words, OpenNebula doesn't handle > the network configuration, you have to do that manually, it only cares about > what bridge to hook the VMs to. > > Also I thought to bond 2 each for SAN and network traffic instead of all 4 > bonded like they are. The bond is really only for speed increase more so than > fault tolerance. > > Bonding interfaces is a very good idea, for all the hosts and especially more > for the storage server (SAN or whatever). Since the storage network will have > a lot of traffic keeping it separated is a very good practice. > > Regards, > Jaime > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Donny Brooks <dbro...@mdah.state.ms.us> > wrote: > I have been doing a good bit of searching for the answer to this but cannot > seem to find a straight answer. My servers have 4 network cards each. > Currently I have them all bonded/trunked. How does OpenNebula handle this? I > want to redo my hosts and start fresh. Do I need to go ahead and do the > bond/trunk on the host manually or does OpenNebula handle that? Also I > thought to bond 2 each for SAN and network traffic instead of all 4 bonded > like they are. The bond is really only for speed increase more so than fault > tolerance. > > -- > Donny B. > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > > > -- > Jaime Melis > Project Engineer > OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing > www.OpenNebula.org | jme...@opennebula.org > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
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