ProxVE cluster members with 'asymmetric' NICs present ?

[fortechitsolutions]

Hi, This is probably a non-starter but I wanted to ask: Consider a scenario,

- small dev proxVE cluster composed of 2 physical hosts, patched up and running ProxVE 1.9
- both are dell 2950, have dual-broadcom gig ether onboard
- one has an add-in PCI_E nic, Intel e1000

there appears to be no method to configure the e1000 via GUI; because it isn't present in both hosts ..
I tried to manually plumb it - and strange things started happening with my networking on the Dev VMs on these hosts (ie, erratic behaviour). So I undid that.

Is it safe to assume, if I put identical NICs in both boxes, I should have the ability to configure these in ProxVE normally .. but only if I do this ?

Many thanks!


Tim Chipman

 

[udo]

Hi Tim,
you can have many different nic-types in each host.
Perhaps the output of following commands can help you

dmesg | grep eth
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
lspci | grep -i ether
# to see driver with pci-address like
lspci -v -s 09:00.0

Udo

 

[fortechitsolutions]

Hi Udo, thanks for the quick reply. I will revisit this topic, since you are suggesting that different NIC config in my ProxVE nodes is not a problem.

The host in question - I can easily see the nic (eth2) via "ifconfig -a"; and it appears in dmesg and '70-persistent-net.rules' as expected.

I guess, the fact that it can't be managed via the ProxVE GUI doesn't imply that it can't work - just that I have to set it up from the CLI (no a problem).

I will setup this eth2 interface as a bridge interface, then bridge a test VM onto it; and see how things behave.

Thanks!

Tim