Hi, At Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:58:49 +0100, Matthew Law wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to setup sheepdog on 3 hosts. Each host has several ethernet > NICs and we have a dedicated storage switch available so I would like to > bond 2 NICs on each host (using 802.3ad LACP) and dedicate those to > storage traffic and have the VM traffic go out over a separate network > interface. > > Some questions: > > How is sheepdog configured to use a separate storage network to that which > is used for accessing the VMs? Is this just in the corosync config? Yes. Specify the ip address on the bonded interface to totem.interface.bindnetaddr in corosync.conf. > > Can sheepdog work with LACP and will there be any increase in throughput > over a single NIC? (even if not, I would like to have some failover) It should work, but I'm not sure whether it increases throughput. It depends on your environment. If your disk is a bottleneck, you wouldn't see any improvement. > > I have seen mention of Sheepdog support in OpenStack. Is this available now? Yes. You can use Sheepdog from nova-volume in OpenStack. Thanks, Kazutaka |