On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:45:59 -0400
John Florian <jflor...@doubledog.org> wrote:

> In my oVirt deployment at home, I'm trying to minimize the amount of
> physical HW and its 24/7 power draw.  As such I have the NFS server for
> my domain virtualized.  This is not used for oVirt's SD, but rather the
> NFS server's back-end storage comes from oVirt's SD.  To maximize the
> performance of my NFS server, do I still need to use bonded NICs to
> increase bandwidth like I would a physical server or does the
> VirtIO-SCSI stuff magically make this unnecessary? 

This depends on the scenario.
Bonding two VirtIO vNICs connected to the same network would be not
increase the throughput, since a single vNIC has by default no
artificial bandwidth limit.
But bonding two SR-IOV VF on two different NICs might be increase the
performance.
 

> In my head I can argue it both ways,

You are welcome to share.

> but have never seen it stated one way or the other,
> oddly.
> 
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