Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Adding a bonding interface

We will now see how to add network bonding to our cluster. There are several types of bonding options available. However, only balance-rr, active-backup, and LACP (802.3ad) are the most widely used. The balance-rr option provides the round robin method to increase the overall interface bandwidth with failover. The balance-rr option does not require any special network switch. Just about any switch can be used to make this work. The major drawback of balance-rr is a waste of data packets. LACP is known as the industry-standard bonding.

In this book, we will only take a look at the LACP bonding protocol. However, to give you an idea of what balance-rr bonding looks like, the following diagram shows balance-rr bonding ...