best form of bonding?

[hotwired007]

Im currently using two dell pe1950s with dual 1GB NICs but only one is currently connected... i plan on having 2 netgear switches with 1 NIC from each server plugged into each switch. I will then have both switches connected to each other.

Which is the best setting for failover and teaming on Proxmox?

from what i can tell balance-rr and balance-xor need support from the switch whereas balance-tlb and balance-alb do not.

also to change the IP config, will i need to take the servers out of the cluster and then modify the ip settings and then bring them back into the cluster?

 

[hec]

I use 802.3ad bonding mode. I think this is the best way of bondig. With this bonding mode you have nearly double speed if both switches are reachable and also a connection if one switch is not reachable. I don't think that you have to reinit the cluster but i've never tried it. Bonding is under the interfaces. Do you also use VLANs?

 

[hotwired007]

no VLANs, i'm stuggling to make any changes to the secondary server - keep getting errors everytime i try to make a change on the secondary server saying 'error - you do not have write access' yet i am logged in as root on its web interface.

 

[hec]

Please use the console. Then edit the file /etc/network/interfaces
Webinterfaces are nice but the console is working everytime.

auto loiface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet manual
iface eth1 inet manual


# 802.3ad
auto bond0
iface bond0 inet manual
	slaves eth0 eth1
	bond_miimon 100
	bond_mode 4


# Bridges
auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
	address 
        netmask 
        gateway 
	bridge_ports bond0
	bridge_stp off
	bridge_fd 0

 

[tom]

on a slave node you can ONLY change the network, so I do not think that you get the "error you do not have write access" if you change the network setup.

 

[hotwired007]

on a slave node you can ONLY change the network, so I do not think that you get the "error you do not have write access" if you change the network setup.

CHeers, i was trying to stop the local storage from being set to VM storage...