Note that you can also explore the option of setting up STP in your network (which will handle the loops).
Thanks, Edy. On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Bryan Sockel <[email protected]> wrote: > Understood. Our typical server deployment is primary network link to one > switch and back up link to a second switch. This allows for my network > admin to do switch maintenance with out any down time. So in our ovirt > deployment we have bonded link for one server going to switch 1 and on > server 2 we have a bonded link going to switch 2. We have to manually put > the server in maintenance mode before he could do any switch maintenance. > If there was an actual switch outage, we would have to wait for the system > to restart the HA VM's on the other server. > > I know there are ways on the switch side that we can make both switches > appear as a single switch and possibly create a bond across switches, but > that is not something we have implemented. > > Thanks > Bryan Sockel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Edward Haas <[email protected]> > To: Petr Horacek <[email protected]> > Cc: Bryan Sockel <[email protected]>, users <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 09:10:39 +0200 > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] NIC Bonding > > > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Petr Horacek <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hello Bryan, >> >> I'm afraid it is not possible with oVirt. You can only attach NICs to a >> bonding via the way Arthur suggested. >> >> Regards, >> Petr >> >> 2017-11-09 16:41 GMT+02:00 Bryan Sockel <[email protected]>: >>> >>> I have a similar setup i am trying to achieve, but i would like to >>> create 2 bonds to increase the bandwith and then configure 1 bond as a >>> backup to the primary. Is there some way to do this? >>> >> > I would argue that such a setup is problematic. The bond link goes down > only when all its slaves are down, therefore, if you loose one slave, the > BW is decreased and the backup will not take over. > Using 3 or 4 slaves bond can allow you to get both increased BW and > redundancy. > > Thanks, > Edy. > > >> >>> >>> Bryan Sockel >>> >>> Sent using Alt-N's own MDaemon Messaging Server <http://www.altn.com/> >>> Get to know the Alt-N family by liking us on Facebook >>> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alt-N-Technologies-MDaemon/220307374735000?ref=hl> >>> ! >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Arthur Melo <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Cc: users <[email protected]> >>> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 10:18:03 -0200 >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] NIC Bonding >>> >>> Just drag and drop NICs then configure it to active/backup! :) >>> >>> Atenciosamente, >>> Arthur Melo >>> Linux User #302250 >>> >>> >>> 2017-11-06 8:15 GMT-02:00 <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> Hello! >>>> I'm new(-ish) to oVirt and have a question regarding network. >>>> I currently use vmware, the hosts have 4 nic each and connected to two >>>> switches in stack(extreme), i have two vSwitch with two nic each setup in >>>> active/standby, with this i don't have to do anything with the physical >>>> switch. >>>> So how do i do this setup on oVirt so i don't need to configure the >>>> switches? >>>> I know how to bond the cards, but i am afraid of a switchloop, so i >>>> just want to make sure that does not happen. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Magnus Isaksson >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > >
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