Administrator’s Guide

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Chapter 2. Managing Acronis Storage
(b) On the Configure custom role panel, create custom roles: click Add and specify role names and
ports. Custom roles can later be assigned to any network interface in a cluster.
To remove a custom role, make sure it is not assigned to any interface, select it, and click Remove.
(c) Click Done to return to the Choose roles panel.
11. Select the required roles and click Done to assign them.
2.1.1 Setting Up Network Bonding
Bonding multiple network interfaces is optional but provides the following benefits:
High network availability. If one of the interfaces fails, the traffic will be automatically routed through the
working interface(s).
Higher network performance. For example, two bonded Gigabit interfaces will deliver the throughput of
about 1.7 Gbit/s or up to 200 MB/s. For a storage node, the required number of network interfaces to
bond may depend on the number of disks. For example, an HDD can deliver data at speeds of up to 1
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