On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Ben Bradley <list...@virtx.net> wrote:
> Hi All > > I'm looking to add a new host to my oVirt lab installation. > I'm going to share out some LVs from a separate box over iSCSI and will > hook the new host up to that. > I have 2 NICs on the storage host and 2 NICs on the new Ovirt host to > dedicate to the iSCSI traffic. > I also have 2 separate switches so I'm looking for redundancy here. Both > iSCSI host and oVirt host plugged into both switches. > > If this was non-iSCSI traffic and without oVirt I would create bonded > interfaces in active-backup mode and layer the VLANs on top of that. > > But for iSCSI traffic without oVirt involved I wouldn't bother with a bond > and just use multipath. > > From scanning the oVirt docs it looks like there is an option to have > oVirt configure iSCSI multipathing. > Look for iSCSI bonding - that's the feature you are looking for. > > So what's the best/most-supported option for oVirt? > Manually create active-backup bonds so oVirt just sees a single storage > link between host and storage? > Or leave them as separate interfaces on each side and use oVirt's > multipath/bonding? > > Also I quite like the idea of using IPv6 for the iSCSI VLAN, purely down > to the fact I could use link-local addressing and not have to worry about > setting up static IPv4 addresses or DHCP. Is IPv6 iSCSI supported by oVirt? > No, we do not. There has been some work in the area[1], but I'm not sure it is complete. Y. [1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:merged+project:vdsm+branch:master+topic:ipv6-iscsi-target-support > > Thanks, Ben > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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