Creating Network Bond

Network bonding is a method of combining two or more physical network interfaces into a single logical interface to increase bandwidth, provide redundancy, or both. In eEKAS, bonding can be used to improve performance for storage traffic, client access, or both, while ensuring that network connectivity remains uninterrupted if one link fails.

Common bonding modes include:

Port Failover – One interface is active at a time; if it fails, another takes over (high availability).

Load Balancing – Distributes packets evenly across all interfaces (load balancing).

Broadcast – Sends all traffic over all interfaces simultaneously, ensuring maximum redundancy.

802.3ad (LACP) – Aggregates multiple interfaces for higher throughput, requiring switch support.

Bonding helps ensure continuous service availability, which is critical for a high-availability storage cluster.

Network card teaming (bonding)

This option allows you to bundle several network cards in order to increase bandwidth and/or redundancy (reliability).

In order to create network bond click on network administration, create network bond

Select the network ports you wish to use

Select the bonding mode you wish to use

Configure TCP/IP settings for your network bond

After the creation you can see your bond properties under network bonds. In this example we have disconnected one network port on purposely in order to demonstrate that the network connection is still working.