Using multiple physical network devices for better performance

Content Software for File CLI Reference

Version
4.2.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-HCSF001-03

It's easy to saturate the bandwidth of a single network interface when using WekaFS. For higher throughput, it is possible to leverage multiple network interface cards (NICs\). The -o net notation shown in the next example can be used to pass the names of specific NICs to WekaFS host driver.

For example, the following command will allocate two cores and two physical network devices for increased throughput:
mount -t wekafs -o num_cores=2 -o net=mlnx0,net=mlnx1 backend1/my_fs /mnt/weka