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Yeah, that impresses me as a bit odd too. I've seen situations where folks have done this because they believed they would need VSS/VPC or similar on the switc
by incision 14y ago
Yeah, that impresses me as a bit odd too.
I've seen situations where folks have done this because they believed they would need VSS/VPC or similar on the switch side, but ALB on the server should avoid that.
Perhaps they have a n array of access switches, each serving some subset to lessen the impact?
- brooksbp 14y agoVSS/VPC == MLAG... but what is ALB? I am guessing server uses one link until failure then uses the other? Even then, there are still network issues to overcome that may justify MLAG.
- avleenvig 14y agoHonestly, we find it's much easier to spread the load between many switches, and have enough capacity that one switch failure is a non-event. Switches are expensive, it's true. After a certain point it does become less expensive and complex to just add more servers and switches. There's a strong advantage to keeping things as simple as possible. Bonding isn't really complicated, but how many not-complicated things can you add before things become complicated? :-)