How to set 10G and 20G network interface speeds on SoftLayer

问题

I am using SoftLayer_Hardware_Server.setPublicNetworkInterfaceSpeed() to change the public interface speed of bare metal servers. I am unable to set any speed higher than 2000 (1G bonded).

Trying to set speed to 10000 results in an exception:

SoftLayerAPIError(SoftLayer_Exception_Public): Speed cannot be null and must be 0 (Disconnect), 10, 100, or 1000.

Setting the speed to 20000 results in a different exception:

SoftLayerAPIError(SoftLayer_Exception_Public): Speed cannot be null and must be 0 (Disconnect), 1000, or 2000.

Is there a different nomenclature for 10G and 20G?

回答1:

• First you need to see what is max speed set in your server. Please execute the following rest example to see that information:

  https://[username]:[apikey]@api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Hardware/[hardware_id]/getNetworkComponents?objectMask=mask[id,name,hardware,speed,maxSpeed,port]
  
  Method: GET
  

Also you can see these hardware details (Speed,Max speed) on Control Portal (i.e. https://control.softlayer.com/devices/details/1234) and values are allowed/available to set.

• Now, if you need to increase the speed, the next step is to modify Max Speed. In other words, the server has to be upgraded and see what max values are allowed to set.

  This is example to upgrade the max speedfor Virtual Guests: Network Speed - How to find the ID from getItemPrices to increase maxspeed in softlayer

  Where method to get valid item prices to upgrade for Bare Metal is SoftLayer_Hardware::getUpgradeItemPrices

  And thecomplexType to change in the Hardware upgrade execution is "complexType": "SoftLayer_Container_Product_Order_Hardware_Server_Upgrade".

• Then, you will able to change the speed until max speed set in you server.

回答2:

The SoftLayer API does not permit any speeds higher than 2000 for bare metal systems. I have reported the bug to SoftLayer support.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36360200/how-to-set-10g-and-20g-network-interface-speeds-on-softlayer