Hi Alexandre, It should be possible to create bonds of 4 NICs in the newest version of XenCenter (the one that comes with XenServer 6.1). Are you using that version?
The CLI does not have a limit on the number of NICs in a bond, so you can indeed use that if XenCenter does not work. Cheers, Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: xen-api-boun...@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-api-boun...@lists.xen.org] > On Behalf Of Alexandre Kouznetsov > Sent: 27 December 2012 5:18 PM > To: xen-api@lists.xen.org > Subject: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6 bonding, 2 or 4 NICs > > Hello. > > I'm planning the configuration for a small XCP 1.6 cluster. On of the > requirements is high throughput between the nodes, so I'm planning to > bond up to 4 physical 1Gbps NIC's together. After playing around a little bit > an > studying documentation a few questions have arised. > > (I think I better split this into several messages) > > XenCenter allows me to create "bond" networks, but only with 2 interfaces, > while XCP 1.6 Release Notes mentions that it allows up to 4 NICs to be used > in an active-active bond. Is it a XenCenter's limitation, and in my case the > bond of 4 NIC's shall be created from CLI? Or XenCenter should normally > allow me to bond 4 NICs if the Xen Host supports it, meaning that something > is wrong with my setup? > > Greetings. > > -- > Alexandre Kouznetsov > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-api mailing list > Xen-api@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api _______________________________________________ Xen-api mailing list Xen-api@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
