IMG 1010 - GCEMS redundancy - Utilizing Bonding

To aid in the GCEMS redundancy fail-over situation, a technique labeled Bonding can be applied to the Network Cards on any GCEMS servers utilizing GCEMS or Host Redundancy. Bonding along with a specific network setup (both displayed in diagrams below), can be utilized so the IMG has full GCEMS redundancy in the event a failure occurs. The Bonding technique being employed on the GCEMS is labeled active-backup mode. Bonding is supported on the GCEMS servers that are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 and above. Refer to the topics listed in the Related Items heading below for more information. Refer to the information below.

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