How to configure Team Bonding in Xen Orchestra

This will be a guide on how to configure Team Bonding for XCP-NG. I will be using team bonding mode balance-slb to gain maximum throughput of data with failover in case of cable/port failure.

Open a web browser and navigate to Xen Orchestra and input your credentials

On the left hand side, select New then choose Network

Select the Create a new network on drop down and choose your server name (R610 in my case)

Under the Interface section, choose your NICs (Network Interface Cards)

Choosing eth0, eth1, eth2 and eth3 in my example

Enter the following information below for the following reasons.

Interface – eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3

Reason – Maximum performance throughput and ability to plan for failover.

Name – The name of this bonding is NIC max throughput bond

Reason – Simplicity of name and use case

Description – Bonding all R610 NICs

MTU – 1500

Reason - Max throughput of NICs

Bond mode – balance-slb

Reason – Wanted maximum throughput for any heavy load data transfers

Then create the network.

Now we will verify to ensure Team Bonding has been configured properly using the terminal or command prompt

Open a new terminal/command prompt and ssh into your XCP-NG server (Not Xen Orchestra/XOA)

Command - ssh root@ipaddress

Use the following command below to view the list of team bonded NICs for the XCP-NG server

Command - xe bond-list

This shows the master and slave NICs

Use the command below to view all interfaces including bonded NICs status and information

Command - xe pif-list