Best way to separate traffic and configure the PVE network

Jan 14, 2025
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Hi, we're building an 4 node PVE cluster with NVME Ceph storage.

Available Nics: We have several nics available:
  • Nic1: 2 x 10G + 2 x 1G
  • Nic2: 2 x 10G
  • Nic3: 2 x 100G
Traffic/Networks: Now we need (I think) the following traffic separations:
  • PVE Management
  • PVE Cluster & Corosync
  • Ceph (public) traffic > 2 x 10G Bond1 (MLAG)
  • Public VM & Migration traffic > 2 x 10G Bond2 (MLAG)
  • Ceph (internal) cluster traffic > 2 x 100G Bond3 (MLAG)
Question now: What to do best with the remaining 2 x 1G ports?

Bond/Bridge: All 10/100G ports should use Linux Bond to use MLAG. The Public VM & Migration traffic should also use a Linux bridge. Whats with the rest? No Bridge?

Thanks!
 

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