multi-home and bonding NIC

[PeterLinuxGeek]

Hi All,

Is this possible...

4 NICs - bonded in 2 pairs.
1 pair on 192.168.10.0/24 network
1 pair on 10.10.20.0/24 network
Have 2-3 VMs with static IP in the 192.168.10.0 segment
and 3-4 VMs with static IP in the 10.10.20.0 segment

On top of that I want to keep SSH access to the host server (or do I need a 5th NIC for that?)

I can do bondig - but can I setup VMs so they share the same bond?
Do I need a 5th NIC to keep direct SSH access to the host?


Other question...
I've 1.2 TB in a RAID 6 - What would be the best way to install VMs :
- Each VM a different partition on the host, or Each VM a 40-80GB file?

 

[tom]

Hi All,

Is this possible...

4 NICs - bonded in 2 pairs.
1 pair on 192.168.10.0/24 network
1 pair on 10.10.20.0/24 network
Have 2-3 VMs with static IP in the 192.168.10.0 segment
and 3-4 VMs with static IP in the 10.10.20.0 segment

On top of that I want to keep SSH access to the host server (or do I need a 5th NIC for that?)

I can do bondig - but can I setup VMs so they share the same bond?
Do I need a 5th NIC to keep direct SSH access to the host?

Possible, no 5th NIC needed.

Other question...
I've 1.2 TB in a RAID 6 - What would be the best way to install VMs :
- Each VM a different partition on the host, or Each VM a 40-80GB file?

KVM or OpenVZ guests? Why Raid6?

For KVM I would use this RAID as additional LVM storage. But you need to wait for 1.4 beta to use this in an easy way. Currently we work on this beta release and you can expect it soon.