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Slow bandwidth between master and media server (WAN Optimisation Enabled)

unkn0wnn
Level 4

Hello,

I seem to have an issue where bandwidth between master <-> media server is only about 1Mbps.

Media server is 10/10 Mbit

Master server is 30/25 Mbit

 

Media server WAN optimization measured on both systems:

MediaDR.WANOptimization> Traffic 10 20

                 --------------------------------------        --------------------------------------
                 |             OPTIMIZED              |        |             NON-OPTIMIZED          |
                 --------------------------------------        --------------------------------------
  Time Offset      MB/sec        Mb/sec        Kb/sec            MB/sec        Mb/sec        Kb/sec
     (sec)          (avg)         (avg)         (avg)             (avg)         (avg)         (avg)
  -----------    ----------    ----------    ----------        ----------    ----------    ----------
           10          0.00             0             0              0.24             1          1931
           20          0.00             0             0              0.24             1          1921
           30          0.00             0             1              0.24             1          1907
           40          0.00             0             1              0.24             1          1909
           50          0.00             0             1              0.24             1          1947
           60          0.00             0             2              0.24             1          1950
           70          0.00             0             2              0.24             1          1914
           80          0.00             0             0              0.25             1          1969
           90          0.00             0             1              0.24             1          1940
          100          0.00             0             1              0.29             2          2340
          110          0.00             0             2              0.24             1          1923
          120          0.00             0             0              0.24             1          1938
          130          0.00             0             0              0.24             1          1928
          140          0.00             0             1              0.24             1          1917
          150          0.00             0            14              0.24             1          1932
          160          0.00             0             2              0.24             1          1937
          170          0.00             0             1              0.24             1          1944
          180          0.00             0             1              0.24             1          1951
          190          0.00             0             0              0.24             1          1946
          200          0.00             0             0              0.24             1          1902

Master appliance:

Main.WANOptimization> Traffic 10 10

                 --------------------------------------        --------------------------------------
                 |             OPTIMIZED              |        |             NON-OPTIMIZED          |
                 --------------------------------------        --------------------------------------
  Time Offset      MB/sec        Mb/sec        Kb/sec            MB/sec        Mb/sec        Kb/sec
     (sec)          (avg)         (avg)         (avg)             (avg)         (avg)         (avg)
  -----------    ----------    ----------    ----------        ----------    ----------    ----------
           10          0.22             1          1751              0.07             0           552
           20          0.22             1          1767              0.07             0           587
           30          0.22             1          1759              0.07             0           542
           40          0.22             1          1736              0.07             0           528
           50          0.22             1          1743              0.08             0           604
           60          0.22             1          1749              0.06             0           477
           70          0.22             1          1729              0.07             0           552

WAN Optimisation is enabled on both appliances with the below parameters:

master:
 32 15000 750 1 2 100000 125000 4 2 0 0 32768 0 1 0 4096 1 1 5000 2.1.1 13698 226 7921574 0 790656829 1212969133 1640042869408 861130574 1161517458629 351838559 478525410779 5 1 32 0 0 2000 25 1
  Network Optimization Report
  ---------------------------
    TCP connections optimized = 225
    TCP connections not optimized (or not appropriate for optimization) = 0
    Network Optimization = ENABLED

BONDING
-------
bond0  : 10Gb/s   FC    PLUGGED|UP           172.24.1.55     -- None --
Mode (802.3ad) Slaves ( eth6 eth7 )

media:

32 15000 750 1 2 100000 125000 4 2 0 0 32768 0 1 0 4096 1 1 5000 2.1.1 13698 89 1095138 0 901119849 40840673 22459245756 36617134 21437318279 4223539 1021927477 5 1 32 0 0 2000 25 1

Network Optimization Report
  ---------------------------
    TCP connections optimized = 89
    TCP connections not optimized (or not appropriate for optimization) = 0
    Network Optimization = ENABLED

MediaDR.Network> LinkAggregation Status
BONDING
-------
bond0  : 1Gb/s    TP    PLUGGED|UP           172.24.1.77   -- None --
Mode (802.3ad) Slaves ( eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3 eth4 eth5 )

Also I have below shown in dmesg on media server, what could possibly be wrong etc ?

Could anybody please advise ?

bonding: bond0: An illegal loopback occurred on adapter (eth3). Check the configuration to verify that all Adapters are connected to 802.3ad compliant switch ports
bonding: bond0: An illegal loopback occurred on adapter (eth5). Check the configuration to verify that all Adapters are connected to 802.3ad compliant switch ports
bonding: bond0: An illegal loopback occurred on adapter (eth2). Check the configuration to verify that all Adapters are connected to 802.3ad compliant switch ports
bonding: bond0: An illegal loopback occurred on adapter (eth0). Check the configuration to verify that all Adapters are connected to 802.3ad compliant switch ports
bonding: bond0: An illegal loopback occurred on adapter (eth4). Check the configuration to verify that all Adapters are connected to 802.3ad compliant switch ports
bonding: bond0: An illegal loopback occurred on adapter (eth1). Check the configuration to verify that all Adapters are connected to 802.3ad compliant switch ports

6 REPLIES 6

Systems_Team
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Hi Unkn0wnn,

I haven't used WAN optimisation on my appliances, so cannot comment directly on that but do have a couple of observations from the info you've provided.

I am guessing that you have already asked your network team to review the switches, their config (including aggregation) and routing - based on the "illegal loopback" messages you are seeing?

The other observation is you haven't stated what model of appliance, or their software versions, but your conversation is tagged as version 7.5.  If you are running that version then your appliances would be running version 2.5.  Apart from that version being end of life and no longer supported, the use of Eth0 for anything other than initial config of the device was unsupported until version 2.6.0.2.  I'm not sure if that is a part of your issue.  Here are a couple of dicussions I've been involved in regarding this:

https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup-Appliance/Eth0-reserved-interface-Why-and-How-can-I-free-it-up/...

https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup-Appliance/Netbackup-Appliance-5230-eth0-management-port/m-p/825...

Hopefully someone else will be along with more info for you soon.

Hope this helps,

Steve

Nicolai
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bonding: bond0: An illegal loopback occurred on adapter (eth3). Check the configuration to verify that all Adapters are connected to 802.3ad compliant switch ports

This is a OS message not related to Netbackup

802.3ad (VLAN taggning) is a protocol where multiple VLANS can be trunked to one NIC. Switch side need to be configured for VLAN tagging.

Red Hat has a technical article about the error message (required a login)

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/56604

Else just google for the above error messages.

Hello, thank you for your help so far

Appliance Model is NetBackup Appliance 5220.
Appliance Version is 2.5.2.

I have asked my technical team to have a look at bandwidth which oscilates in ~1Mbps and config including routing.

From what I understand we must remove usage of interface eth0 from the aggregation (bond0) right ?

 

Still getting an illegal loopback error, cannot check with redhat as after registering they want me to buy subscription

Systems_Team
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Hi Unkn0wnn,

Yeah, painful I know.  When you do a basic Google search for that exact message, just about all the hits are from RedHat and you need the subscription.  Almost looks like they are scrubbing any other answers from the Internet just so you buy a subscription  Smiley Frustrated

However, cutting some of the crap out of that message I came up with a hit from somewhere else that "appears" to have the RedHat answer in it Smiley Very Happy

Have a look at the link below.  You're looking for the 3rd reply (by Christopher Vanik).  In between his two side-by-side screenshots of his console, and the network diagram there is a small hard to read graphic, which is directly under this text - "It seems like RHEL documented this issue previously, but I'm sure Cumulus VX switchports are 802.3ad compliant.".  Have a look (double-click the graphic to enlarge) - I reckon that is the RedHat answer:

https://getsatisfaction.cumulusnetworks.com/cumulus/topics/bondx-an-illegal-loopback-occurred-on-ada...

Hope it helps,

Steve

Thank you for that. I will check configuration of the switches on both sides and then will let you know