PVE /w Dual NIC Bond Configuration for more bandwidth/redundancy

alexinux

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Aug 21, 2023
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Hey all,

On my Office network I have 3 PVEs in a cluster connected to Cisco Switches that can use LACP and all the PVEs having 3 NICs bonded for a total of 3Gbps. On my home Lab I have 2 PVEs with Dual NICs and a Netgear 8 port switch that I know doesn't do LACP but I don't know the best bond configuration to have they VMs and host use the NICs without having disconnections.

1. I would like the PVE's to remain in communication
2. I have a WSUS Server VM that syncs and downloads patches everyday
3. I have an Ubuntu VM that uses apt-mirror to download debian/proxmox patches to an external HDD
4. I either use Ubuntu or a CentOS8/AlmaLinux8 VM to rsync repos to another external HDD

Anyone with any particular configuration that might work?
Something I might be doing wrong with the VMs that my affect my bandwidth or connections in the long run?