[Lustre-discuss] multihomed OST's configuration

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 03:13 -0700, mdavid wrote:
> hi list
> I am a new to lustre (1 week old) and this list.
> I have some Dell PE1950 servers with MD1000 enclosures (scientific
> linux 5 == RHEL5 x86_54) on them and lustre 1.6.5, with lustre patched
> kernels on them
> 
> on a first try (indeed it was the second), I managed to have a lustre
> up and running OK, now
> 
> each dell server has 4 times 1Gb interfaces, and I want to take profit
> from them all
> either I try bonding them, or go for multihomed (which is my first
> try)

If what you want is to get the bandwidth of all 4 interfaces to the
Lustre servers then you really do want bonding.

Can you explain why you think you want multihoming vs. bonding?  Maybe
I'm misunderstanding your goal.

b.

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