I am trying to build out our VMware replacement in Xen Orchestra. In VMware, you bond the 10G NIC on each host. In Xen, it seems like the Bond feature is part of the Pool. This does not seem like a good thing for NFS and VDI storage. I am not a network engineer, but you may have routing issues if you have one IP for the entire pool. If anyone has any advice on how to set up NFS VDI storage network failover, I would be very grateful. If we have 2 10G switches and two separate 10G network cards in each host, you should be able to avoid single-point failure. If either a 10G switch or switch port fails, traffic moves across the second switch. The same applies to the host: traffic flows across the secondary network card if you have a network card or port failure. Any help with the proper way to configure this would be appreciated. Thank you
The bond configuration is done at the pool level because it then copies the port configuration to the hosts you join to the pool. So if eth0 and eth1 are the bonds then you join your host to the pool it will apply those ports as a bond as well. If you have hosts that don’t have matching port names like eth0 and eth1 then you have to rename them to match before joining the them to the pool.
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