Using HP Serviceguard for Linux with Red Hat KVM Guests, May 2013

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Figure 4. Typical network configurations for KVM host and guest
Table 2. Network configuration details
Node name Interface name Remarks
KVM Guest SG_NODE1 bond0 (eth0, eth1) Assign Heartbeat IP
KVM Guest SG_NODE2 bond0 (eth0, eth1) Assign Heartbeat IP
KVM Guest SG_NODE3 bond0 (eth0, eth1) Assign Heartbeat IP
KVM Guest SG_NODE4 bond0 (eth0, eth1) Assign Heartbeat IP
KVM Guest SG_NODE1 eth2 Assign Public IP
KVM Guest SG_NODE2 eth2 Assign Public IP
KVM Guest SG_NODE3 eth2 Assign Public IP
KVM Guest SG_NODE4 eth2 Assign Public IP
KVM Host1 & KVM Host2 bridge0 (uses eth0 as slave) Used as “Source device” for eth0 in all KVM Guests
KVM Host1 & KVM Host2 bridge1 (uses eth1 as slave) Used as “Source device” for eth1 in all KVM Guests
KVM Host1 & KVM Host bridge2 (uses eth2 as slave) Used as “Source device” for eth2 in all KVM Guests
KVM Host1 & KVM Host eth0 Connected to heartbeat network switch
VM Host1 & KVM Host2 eth1 Connected to heartbeat network switch
KVM Host1 & KVM Host2 eth2 Connected to public network
KVM Host1 & KVM Host2 eth3 Can be used for Host Management (Not mandatory)