Re: [Xen-users] bonding with trunking AND iscsi

[Donny Brooks <dbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, so basically give up on the shared bond and just dedicate half the 
nics to the SAN. Gotcha. Thanks!
On 2/2/2011 3:12 PM, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> You can bond your NICs from the dom0 to the switch, but there's no way
> to do the same for the MD3200i, as far as I am aware.  So your SAN
> traffic won't really make use of link aggregation.
>
> For our MD3200i we dedicated two switches and two NICs per host, using
> multipath.  That gives us high availability and 2Gbps (theoretical)
> bandwidth.  Works great.  We started with 4 NICs per host, however.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donny Brooks
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 3:16 PM
> > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Xen-users] bonding with trunking AND iscsi
> >
> > I currently have my 3 xen servers setup to use bonding and vlan
> trunking over all the
> > available network cards in each server. Two of the three machines have
> 4 nics where
> > the other has 2. Each are set to use lacp channel-protocol if that
> matters. What I am
> > trying to accomplish is accessing my iSCSI san (dell md3200i) without
> having to drop
> > out half of my nics from the bond. Should this be possible? The san is
> setup to use
> > vlan20 where all other traffic is on vlan2-vlan17. Has anyone done
> this successfully or
> > do I just need to drop out half of the nics and be done with it?
> >
> > Donny B.
> >
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