[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-docs 2/2] Merge Bonding form Wiki

Wolfgang Link w.link at proxmox.com
Tue Oct 4 11:31:35 CEST 2016


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 pve-network.adoc | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pve-network.adoc b/pve-network.adoc
index a3242d8..4e05ddc 100644
--- a/pve-network.adoc
+++ b/pve-network.adoc
@@ -154,10 +154,22 @@ iface vmbr0 inet static
 Linux Bond
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Bonding is a technique for binding multiple NIC's to a single network
-device.  It is possible to achieve different goals, like make the
-network fault-tolerant, increase the performance or both
-together.
+Bonding (also called NIC teaming or Link Aggregation) is a technique
+for binding multiple NIC's to a single network device.  It is possible
+to achieve different goals, like make the network fault-tolerant,
+increase the performance or both together.
+
+High-speed hardware like Fibre Channel and the associated switching
+hardware can be quite expensive. By doing link aggregation, two NICs
+can appear as one logical interface, resulting in double speed. This
+is a native Linux kernel feature that is supported by most
+switches. If your nodes have multiple Ethernet ports, you can
+distribute your points of failure by running network cables to
+different switches and the bonded connection will failover to one
+cable or the other in case of network trouble.
+
+Aggregated links can improve live-migration delays and improve the
+speed of replication of data between Proxmox VE Cluster nodes.
 
 There are 7 modes for bonding:
 
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