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Linux NIC redundancy and load-balancing recommendation

 
Chris Wigglesworth
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‎11-30-2010 02:06 PM

‎11-30-2010 02:06 PM

Linux NIC redundancy and load-balancing recommendation

When using P4000 iSCSI volumes with a Linux box which has two network interfaces dedicated to iSCSI traffic connected to two separate switches, what is the recommended method to achieve redundancy and load-balancing?

We could register the two network interfaces as iSCSI interfaces using iscsiadm and then use dm-multipath or we could configure the two network interfaces as a bond using balance-alb. Is either of these configurations supported or recommended by HP or is there another better way?
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kghammond
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‎12-01-2010 08:11 PM

‎12-01-2010 08:11 PM

Re: Linux NIC redundancy and load-balancing recommendation

We are hoping the above question will be addressed for Citix XenServer as well...

We tried to setup multi-pathing but it seemed like multi-pathing would only work in XenServer if you had seperate VIP's on seperate subnets.
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