Proliant Network Teaming

[lee.croucher]

Hi All,

I am trying to get a configuration going at the moment, as I have 2
servers in which I can play with configuration and what I am looking
for is load balancing across the two server with a difference.

Each server has two network cards, on the first network card in each
server(Public) I would like this connection to be the main data
streaming connection across the two servers and on the other network
card (Private) I would like to give the a 192.xxx.xxx.xxx address to
carry only the heartbeat communcations for the network.

I would like the heartbeat on a different NIC in each server as the
heartbeat communications are flooding our network with pointless
traffic.

I have already teamed up the network cards in Server1 and Server2 with
Team1 and Team2 but cannot find any way with the HP Network Team
Manager of combiming these teams, so to make Main_Team whereas in
comparison when using the Microsoft Load Balancing you would have a
primary "Cluster IP" address and the the individual network adapters
from each server could sit behind this IP address and you could add
many adapters.

In essence the question I am asking is using the HP Network Manager how
do you:

*Send the Heartbeat between a private IP on one of the network cards in
each server
*Get two teams (Team1 and Team2) to work together as one main team
(Main_Team)

I tried the VLAN option but this is disabled when you setup teaming on
the network adapters.

Please can someone help me, as this is very confusing
Regards,

Lee Croucher

 

[wanderer]

When you talk about heartbeat you are referring to doing adapter teaming
and how the nics see if each other is still working, right?

First off the heartbeat is not flooding your network. It only goes
from one nics switch port to the other nics switch port. Very small
packets that are just keep alives.

You can't do adapter teaming with out the heartbeat.
You can't team nics in different servers together.

In nic load balancing you end up with one nic doing most of the sending
and the other doing most of the recieving. At 100mb full duplex for
each nic you get a 400mb worth of bandwidth pipe. With fault tolerance
you get a nic which will instantly failover if the primary goes down but
you are only at 200mb bandwidth pipe.

I hope this helps