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stephane.clavel
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September 4th, 2015 00:00
Testing link aggregation with Isilon simulator ?
Hello
I wish I can test Isilon link aggregation with the simulator in lab but I fail to find if this is feasible/how to set this up. I don't think I ever configured link aggregation on a VM going to a virtual switch.
Thanks for feedback
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Posted September 4th, 2015 10:00
Hello stephane.clavel,
Thank you for your question! To set up link aggregation in your virtual environment, you can refer to this VMWare Video Knowledge Base article:
Hopefully this helps you get Link Aggregation testing under way with the Isilon Simulator!
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Posted September 4th, 2015 12:00
thanks Katie
the KB describes link aggregation between ESX host and physical switches. My question is about link aggregation between a VM (virtual Isilon node) and virtual switch (distributed or standard)
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Posted September 4th, 2015 13:00
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Posted September 4th, 2015 13:00
Where can I find the Isilon simulator? Sorry I can't help with your question.
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Posted September 4th, 2015 13:00
Hello,
Are you getting any error messages in the Isilon WebUI when you try to add an aggregate interface to your network pool or is the option missing?
In my test, I am able to see the aggregate interfaces available when adding an interface to a network pool:
Can you let me know what you are seeing?
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Posted September 4th, 2015 13:00
Thanks Phil!
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Posted September 8th, 2015 07:00
Hello Katie
Thanks again for your answer.
I think I have a more basic problem to solve first as I can only see int-a interface while the Isilon VM has 3 vNICs. No ext interface appear in node config wizard or in web GUI. But can see ext-1 interface in CLI
isilon2-1# isi networks list interfaces
Interface Status Membership Addresses
--------------- ----------- ------------------------- ------------------------------
1:ext-1 up
1:int-a up int-a-subnet:int-a-poo... 192.168.154.114,192.168.154...
isilon2-1#
So now my questions are how to use the ext interface and how to bring 3rd interface up to create 2nd ext interface and create agg interface ?
thanks
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Posted September 9th, 2015 00:00
Thanks Katie, appreciate your help.
johnsonka
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Posted September 8th, 2015 14:00
Hello,
After going through the simulator a few more times, here is what I have for you:
It is theoretically possible to add another network interface to the Isilon Simulator (as in my example above); HOWEVER, this greatly reduces the stability of the simulator and is not something done easily. I was able to run for around 3 hours in this state before I lost one of my virtual nodes. This is because the simulator, as it is currently designed, is still semi-reliant on hardware based scripting that has been worked-around to achieve a virtual Isilon node, so it is not written to handle hardware changes.
Based on my testing, doing aggregation testing is not yet possible with the current Isilon Simulator.