An administrator is tasked with configuring networking on an AHV cluster and wants to maximize throughput for the host with many small VMs while minimizing network switch configuration.
Which bond mode should the administrator select?
An administrator is tasked with configuring networking on an AHV cluster and wants to maximize throughput for the host with many small VMs while minimizing network switch configuration.
Which bond mode should the administrator select?
To maximize throughput for the host with many small VMs while minimizing network switch configuration, the administrator should select Active-Active with MAC Pinning. Active-Active with MAC Pinning allows each source MAC address to be balanced to only one network adapter at a time, thereby distributing the load across multiple links without the need for configuring link aggregation on the network switches.
Active-active and active-active with MAC pinning have 20GBps maximum host throughput, Active-backup is maximum 10 GBps. Active-Active with MAC pinning does not require link aggregation since each source MAC address is balanced to only one adapter at a time. If you select the Active-Active NIC-teaming policy, you must enable LAG and LACP on the corresponding ToR switch for each node in the cluster one after the other.
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v5_15:wc-uplink-configuration-c.html Active-Active with MAC pinning does not require link aggregation since each source MAC address is balanced to only one adapter at a time. If you select the Active-Active NIC-teaming policy, you must enable LAG and LACP on the corresponding ToR switch for each node in the cluster one after the other.
Active-Active with Mac Pinning allows for the load to be distributed across multiple links while keeping the MAC addresses pinned to specific links. This is particularly useful when dealing with many small VMs as it helps in optimizing network traffic and ensuring efficient utilization of network resources.