An administrator is planning to deploy a Nutanix cluster to support a few high-performance VMs.
This deployment will have the following considerations:
• Individual VMs will likely generate network throughputs in the range of 90-100Mbps
• Due to the configuration of the VMs, it is unlikely that a node will host more than one or two of them at a time
• Individual VMs will communicate with only a few (one or two) remote hosts at a time
• Multicast will not be used in the environment
• The hosts are connected via two 1GbE network connections
How should the administrator configure the network bonds to meet this requirement while maintaining the simplest switch configuration?

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An administrator is planning to deploy a Nutanix cluster to support a few high-performance VMs.

This deployment will have the following considerations:

• Individual VMs will likely generate network throughputs in the range of 90-100Mbps

• Due to the configuration of the VMs, it is unlikely that a node will host more than one or two of them at a time

• Individual VMs will communicate with only a few (one or two) remote hosts at a time

• Multicast will not be used in the environment

• The hosts are connected via two 1GbE network connections

How should the administrator configure the network bonds to meet this requirement while maintaining the simplest switch configuration?

Blavier Arnaud · Accepted Answer

Configure bond0 as balance-sib

Blavier Arnaud · Answer

Configure bond0 as active-backup

Blavier Arnaud · Answer

Configure bond0 as balance-tcp

Blavier Arnaud · Answer

Configure bond0 as balance-lacp

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