Hi Götz.
I'm running Centos 6.2 on a Proliant DL380 G7 server connected to a HP
Lefthand P4500
using multipath, and ALB(Adaptive Load Balancing) on the Lefthand box it
self.
Regarding, multipath vs bonding read this ->
http://blog.open-e.com/bonding-versus-mpio-explained/
You will need to go through the storage manual for red hat enterprise 6
and read some chapters
regarding configuring your options/needs for your scenario.
Best regards,
Svavar O - Iceland
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Götz Reinicke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do have one iscsi storage with 4 GBit nics of which currently only one
> is configured with an ip and which is in productive use by one cent os
> 6.3 server.
>
> Doing some research brought me to the idea to use some nic bonding or
> multipathing for that storage, but multipathing I did about four or five
> years ago only once :)
>
> Furthormore I can't find the ultimate answer (may be there is not such)
> what will be better for us:
>
> bonding or multipathing.
>
> The storage is used for backup; it's connected to an backupserver which
> pulls data from different servers ... may be at the same time or one
> after an other. The server uses two bonded nics to the LAN.
>
> My question regarding the setup is, what might be good or better:
> bonding or multipathing. We'd like to increase performance and nic
> failover if one link breaks.
>
> If multipathing is to be preferred, is it possible to preserve the data
> currently saved on the storages ext4?
>
> And googling shows up a lot of different how tos and the redhat doc; but
> I din not found one describing a straight forward setup.
>
> So thanks a lot for any suggestion or comments!
>
> Regards . Götz
>
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