Best practices for using multicast with kvm virtual machines
Issue
- How do I enable multicast networking for applications in environments with KVM virtual machines present on the same network or directly on KVM virtual machines?
- Poor KVM performance when using multicast
Environment
- Applications that use mulitcast
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform (Clustering and GFS/GFS2)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons
- MRG Messaging (MRG-M) used with the Clustering option
- Hypervisors that will have performance impact on multicast traffic
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 KVM
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 KVM
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2
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