Veritas Access Installation Guide

To create a bond

1. After you choose manual selection mode, the installer prompts you to enter your selection. Enter 5 to create a new bond.

   NIC selection/NIC bonding/NIC VLAN configuration
   
   Common NICs on all systems:
   
   NIC        Type       Properties       Public
   ====================================================
   ens161     Physical   -                N
   ens192     Physical   -                Y
   ens193     Physical   -                Y
   ens224     Physical   -                Y
   ens225     Physical   -                Y
   ens256     Physical   -                N
   ens257     Physical   -                Y
   
        1)  Select public NICs
        2)  Select private NICs
        3)  Exclude NICs
        4)  Include NICs
        5)  Create a new bond
        6)  Add NICs to a bond
        7)  Remove bonds
        8)  Remove NICs from the bond list
        9)  Create VLAN device
       10)  Delete VLAN device
       11)  Save and continue
   
   Select the NIC option to be configured in this cluster: [1-11,q] 5
   

2. Select a bond mode for the new bond.

   Configure the mode of the NIC bonding:
   
        1)  balance-rr
        2)  active-backup
        3)  balance-xor
        4)  broadcast
        5)  802.3ad
        6)  balance-tlb
        7)  balance-alb
        b)  Back to previous menu
   
   Select the bonding mode: [1-7,b,q] 1
   
   bond0 is created. Please add NICs to bond0 to enable it.
   
   Press [Enter] to continue:

   If you choose 3 or 5, you need to choose the bond option for the bond mode:

   1)	layer2
   2)	layer3+4
   3)	default
   
   Select the bonding option: [1-3,b,q] 1

   The installer prompts you to select the NIC option that you want to configure for the cluster.

3. Enter 6 to add NICs to bond.

   Note:

   You need to have NIC in bond.

   NIC selection/NIC bonding/NIC VLAN configuration
   
   Common NICs on all systems:
   
   NIC        Type       Properties       Public
   ====================================================
   ens161     Physical   -                N
   ens192     Physical   -                Y
   ens193     Physical   -                Y
   ens224     Physical   -                Y
   ens225     Physical   -                Y
   ens256     Physical   -                N
   ens257     Physical   -                Y
   bond0      Virtual    Bond balance-rr  -
   
        1)  Select public NICs
        2)  Select private NICs
        3)  Exclude NICs
        4)  Include NICs
        5)  Create a new bond
        6)  Add NICs to a bond
        7)  Remove bonds
        8)  Remove NICs from the bond list
        9)  Create VLAN device
       10)  Delete VLAN device
       11)  Save and continue
   
   Select the NIC option to be configured in this cluster: [1-11,q] 6

4. Enter 6 to select a NIC that you want to add in a bond.

   Choose NICs for bonding
   
        1)  ens161
        2)  ens192
   	    3)  ens193
        4)  ens224
        5)  ens225
        6)  ens256
        7)  ens257
        b)  Back to previous menu
   
   Choose NICs, separated by spaces: [1-7,b,q,?] 4 5
   

5. Select a bond name for which you want to add the NIC

   Choose a bond name to add NICs
   
        1)  bond0
        b)  Back to previous menu
   
   Choose bonds, separated by spaces: [1-1,b,q] 1
   
   Adding ens224 ens225 to bond0 was successful
   
   Press [Enter] to continue:
   
   NIC selection/NIC bonding/NIC VLAN configuration
   
   Common NICs on all systems:
   
   NIC        Type       Properties       Public
   ====================================================
   ens161     Physical   -                N
   ens192     Physical   -                Y
   ens193     Physical   -                Y
   ens224     Physical   Slave of bond0
   ens225     Physical   Slave of bond0
   ens256     Physical   -                N
   ens257     Physical   -                Y
   bond0      Virtual    Bond balance-rr  Y
   
        1)  Select public NICs
        2)  Select private NICs
        3)  Exclude NICs
        4)  Include NICs
        5)  Create a new bond
        6)  Add NICs to a bond
        7)  Remove bonds
        8)  Remove NICs from the bond list
        9)  Create VLAN device
       10)  Delete VLAN device
       11)  Save and continue
   
   Select the NIC option to be configured in this cluster: [1-11,q]