On May 27, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the clarifications.
> 
> Do you mean I can just use ipmp over the 4 phys cards, have two of them on 
> switch 1 and two on switch 2,
> without switches lacp-trunking configuration, and I should get equivalent of 
> dlmp?

No. DLMP is just link failover, it is not aggregation. In DLMP only one 
physical link is
in use at any time -- other links are standby. DLMP operates at layer 2. IPMP 
is similar, 
but operates at layer 3 (IP) and can be configured to do outbound load 
spreading.

> 
> What we want, is to have CIFS to be accessible on the lan through the 4 phys 
> cards, with two double paths
> over the 2 switches.
> If possible, the 2 double paths should work as 4 paths when everything is ok, 
> and not just 2 alternative
> paths in failover mode.

This is not possible to do this using DLMP or IPMP and have all 4 paths carrying
load. The only way to do that is to have a 4-way aggregation across both 
switches (with
or without IPMP) and choose the best load balancing policy to spread the 
workload across
multiple clients.
 -- richard

> 
> 
> 
> Da: Richard Elling <[email protected]>
> A: [email protected] Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> 
> Data: 26 maggio 2014 21.51.02 CEST
> Oggetto: Re: [discuss] DLMP aggr
> 
> 
> 
> On May 26, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Gabriele Bulfon via illumos-discuss 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, is dlmp aggregation already working on any illumos?
> 
> no
> 
>> I just find SmartOS as a possible candidate...am I wrong?
> 
> no
> 
>> Looks like Oracle 11 has "-m haonly" to create dlmp, but this switch is not 
>> present in illumos dladm.
> 
> you are correct
> 
>> 
>> In case it is not, will ipmp over two LACP-trunked aggrs over two differnet 
>> switch work?
> 
> Yes, but to get the equivalent of DLMP, don't use aggrs.
> -- richard
> 
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