Bondings issues on Oracle cluster RedHat nodes
Issue
- Experiencing issues like connection delay and interrupts on both nodes of an Oracle RAC cluster. Switch logs show switchports are flapping down and up, sometimes being down for several seconds. When bonding is removed, switch logs stop reporting flapping and the connection issues disappear.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
- Oracle RAC
- Bonding
- bnx2 module
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