Configure network bonding

updated: 2017/03/14

Configure network bonding

Network bonding, or network aggregation, or NIC bonding is a network technology that enables you to maximize throughput by aggregating multiple physical links into a single high-speed aggregated network interface. In addition to increasing bandwidth, network bonding provides fault tolerance.

You must configure NIC bonding before or in the scope of mapping logical networks to physical network interfaces.

The following tables describe the types of one-side and two-side bonding that Fuel supports.

Types of one-side bonding
Name Description
balance-rr Implements the round-robin policy. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.
Active-backup Implements the active-backup policy. In this mode, one network interface is active and other network interface is passive. When an active network interface fails, a failover occurs and the previously passive NIC becomes active.
balance-xor Implements the XOR policy. Transmit network packets are based on the selected transmit hash policy. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.
Broadcast Implements the broadcast policy. Transmits network traffic on all slave interfaces. This mode provides fault tolerance.
balance-tlb Adaptive transmit load balancing based on the link utilization. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.
balance-alb Adaptive transmit and receive load balancing based on the link utilization. This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.
balance-slb Modification of the balance-alb mode. SLB bonding enables a limited form of load balancing. The mode does not require information about the remote switch. SLB assigns each source MAC and VLAN pair to a link and transmits all packets from the MAC and VLAN pair through that link.
balance-tcp Adaptive transmit load balancing among network interfaces.
Types of one-side bonding
Name Description
layer2 Uses XOR of hardware MAC addresses to generate the hash.
layer2+3 Uses a combination of layer2 and layer3 protocol information to generate the hash.
layer3+4 Uses the upper layer protocol information, when available, to generate the hash.
encap2+3 Uses the same formula as layer2+3, but relies on skb_flow_dissect to obtain the header fields which may result in the use of inner headers if an encapsulation protocol is used.
encap3+4 Similar to encap2+3, but uses``layer3+4``.

To configure network interfaces:

  1. In the Fuel web UI, click the Nodes tab.

  2. Select nodes.

  3. Click Configure Interfaces

  4. Select network interfaces that you want to aggregate.

  5. Click Bond Network Interfaces.

  6. In the Mode drop-down list, select an appropriate bonding mode.

    Note

    When bonding an Admin interface, you can select the balance-rr and Active Backup modes. Fuel supports Admin interface bonding in LACP mode as an experimental feature. For the 802.3ad (LACP) bond, you can also select an LACP rate. The values of the LACP rate include: fast and slow.

  7. Create and configure additional network interfaces, if needed.

  8. Click Apply.

updated: 2017/03/14
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