Xen 6.2 – NIC bonding – LACP or active/active

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I have 3 XenServer 6.2 machines with 4x 1Gb NICs. Would I be better served by:

  1. putting these in an LACP bond at the switch
  2. putting these in an active/active at the xen server
  3. leaving them separated?

Best Answer

FWIW: based on this document I'm going to configure 1 NIC as the management interface and make the other 3 active/active. Each VM will get (re)assigned to the bonded NIC.