Oracle VM’s architecture provides the same native bonding module that is found in all Enterprise Linux 5.x distributions. Although bonding has several different modes which include modes such as the round robin policy and load balancing policy, the active-backup policy (mode 1) is the preferred mode for Oracle RAC interconnects. The active-backup policy has only one active slave and the remaining are passive slaves. One of the other slaves will become active, if and only if, there is a failure with the current active slave within the bond.
In order to setup bonding within the OVM environment, the first step is to stop any guest VMs that are currently running. Once you have stopped all guest VMs, you must stop all network bridges within your OVM environment using the following command