On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 18:11:54 +0200 David Riedl wrote: > > > 4. As Ceph has lots of connections on lots of IP's and port's, LACP or > > the Linux ALB mode should work really well to balance connections. > Linux ALB Mode looks promising. Does that work with two switches? Each > server has 4 ports which are 'splitted' and connected to each switch. > _ > / _[switch] > / / || > [server] || > \ \_ || > \__[switch] > Will it work for the scenario above? Yes, and it will probably be better than the bonding mode you use now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation However if you read the article above, you will notice that it may NOT do a fully automatic failover in case of switch failure, as it does its magic by ARP trickery. LACP (with MC-LAG capable switches) will just work [TM]. Christian -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer chibi@xxxxxxx Global OnLine Japan/Rakuten Communications http://www.gol.com/ _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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