Difference between revisions of "Target Bond Port Modify Advanced Settings"

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Select the teaming or bonding policy that you would like to apply to the port.

The "Bond Port Advanced Settings" feature in QuantaStor serves the purpose of providing administrators with additional configuration options and fine-tuning capabilities for bonded network ports.

Network bonding, also known as link aggregation or NIC teaming, is a technique used to combine multiple network interfaces into a single logical interface, increasing bandwidth, fault tolerance, and load balancing capabilities.

The purpose of "Bond Port Advanced Settings" includes:

• Customization of Bonding Parameters: Administrators can adjust advanced settings related to network bonding parameters, such as bonding mode (e.g., active-backup, balance-rr, balance-xor, etc.), hash policy, transmit load balancing, and failover behavior. These settings allow administrators to tailor the bonding configuration to suit the specific requirements and characteristics of their network environment.
• Optimization for Performance: Advanced settings enable administrators to optimize the performance of bonded network interfaces by fine-tuning parameters such as packet distribution algorithms, hashing methods, and failover policies. This ensures efficient utilization of network resources and maximizes throughput for data transmission.
• Fault Tolerance Enhancement: By configuring advanced settings, administrators can enhance fault tolerance and resilience of bonded network interfaces by specifying failover criteria, timeout thresholds, and recovery mechanisms. This helps ensure uninterrupted network connectivity and reliability, even in the event of network interface failures or link disruptions.
• Load Balancing Strategies: Advanced settings allow administrators to define load balancing strategies and algorithms for distributing network traffic across bonded interfaces. This includes options for balancing based on MAC addresses, IP addresses, ports, or other criteria, ensuring optimal distribution of network load and bandwidth utilization.
• Traffic Management: Administrators can fine-tune traffic management and prioritization settings for bonded interfaces, including Quality of Service (QoS) parameters, packet scheduling algorithms, and traffic shaping policies. This helps optimize network performance, minimize latency, and prioritize critical traffic types.
• Monitoring and Diagnostics: Advanced settings may include options for enabling additional monitoring and diagnostics features for bonded interfaces, such as statistics collection, error reporting, and event logging. This facilitates proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance analysis of bonded network connections.

Overall, the purpose of the "Bond Port Advanced Settings" feature in QuantaStor is to provide administrators with granular control and customization options for optimizing the configuration, performance, fault tolerance, and management of bonded network interfaces within the storage environment. By adjusting advanced settings, administrators can tailor the network bonding configuration to meet the specific requirements and objectives of their organization, ensuring efficient, reliable, and scalable network connectivity for storage operations.

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