[Gluster-users] Teaming vs Bond?

WK wkmail at bneit.com
Tue Jun 20 02:31:22 UTC 2017


I finally did find some stats on teaming


http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2014/06/23/team-driver/


On 6/19/2017 10:42 AM, WK wrote:
>
> OK, at least its not an *issue* with Gluster. I didn't expect any but 
> you never know.
>
> I have been amused at the 'lack' of discussion on Teaming performance 
> found on Google searches.
>
> There are lots of 'here it is and here is how to set it up' 
> articles/posts, but no 'ooh-wee-wow it is awesome' comments.
>
> It seems that for most people Bonding has worked it kinks out and thus 
> serves its purpose perfectly fine, so no reason to change to Teaming.
>
> That or they had Mahdi's experience with Teaming in its present state 
> and bonding just works better for now.
>
> For now, I'll just use tried and true ALB bonding on this project. 
> After I have some free time I may play with it some more on a test bed 
> we have here.
>
> Among the 'advantages' claimed for Teaming  is the lower performance 
> overhead (though "low vs very-low" may not be significant)
>
> https://github.com/jpirko/libteam/wiki/Bonding-vs.-Team-features
>
> Thanks all for the feedback.
>
> I'll let everyone know if my testing happens and if it is a 
> significant difference (good or bad).
>
> -bill
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6/19/2017 6:27 AM, David Gossage wrote:
>> I haven't done any testing of performance differences, but on my 
>> oVirt/rhev i use standard bonding as that's that it supports.  On the 
>> stand along gluster nodes I use teaming for bonding.
>>
>> Teaming may be slightly easier to manage, but not by much if you are 
>> already used to bond setups.  I haven't noticed any bugs or issues 
>> using teaming.
>>
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>> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 2:59 PM, wk <wkmail at bneit.com 
>> <mailto:wkmail at bneit.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I'm looking at tuning up a new site and the bonding issue came up
>>
>>     A google search reveals that the gluster docs (and Lindsay)
>>     recommend balance-alb bonding.
>>
>>     However, "team"ing came up which I wasn't familiar with. Its
>>     already in RH6/7 and Ubuntu and their Github page implies its stable.
>>
>>     The libteam.org <http://libteam.org> people seem to feel their
>>     solution is more lightweight and it seems easy enough to setup.
>>
>>     Before I go down this path, I was curious if anyone had any
>>     experience/comments with 'team'
>>
>>     It would be nice to get a little speed bump essentially for free.
>>
>>     -bill
>>
>>
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