We have 22 Kafka brokers physical machines (DELL HW) that should be finally installed as production Kafka cluster. when OS should be RHEL 7.9 version
we are not sure about - TEAM vs BOND for Kafka cluster.
from my understanding team network configuration is maybe the preferred configuration?
but I am not sure about this.
Bonding:- Bonding refers to create a bond or aggregation of two or more links into one in order to provide failover and redundancy to the network.
Teaming:- Is a new way implementation of bonding and provides a separate driver. We have both drivers available as of now, and can implement either of them as per requirement.
Advantages of Teaming
- Support for IPv6 (NA/NS) link monitoring
- Teaming has a small kernel module which provides the same implementation with more features.
- Less performance overhead
- By default, Teamed interface is capable of working with D-Bus and Unix Domain Sockets.
- Full userspace runtime control
- Modular design allows function extensible option in future
- Load balancing feature added for LACP support
- Use of NetworkManager(nmcli) to manage our network connections
Teaming provides more features and a way towards automation as network manager can handle the interfaces with modular design and hence considered a modern way of handing the interfaces.
hopefully to get yours ideas and if its team, then on which team configuration is better to use ?
