Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 746)

OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual P009415-01A Rev. A
1. Overview
Restrictions
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Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) – Also known as dynamic link
aggregation. For more information, see “IEEE 802.3ad and LACP Team
Types” on page 749.
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IEEE 802.3ad static – For more information, see “IEEE 802.3ad and LACP
Team Types” on page 749.
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Hashing
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Perceived Port Load
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Destination IP hashing
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Destination MAC hashing
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Backup/Restore of teaming configurations
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Dynamically reprogramming VLAN IDs allows you to change the VLAN ID of
a VLAN without recreating the VLAN with the new ID. The IP addresses
assigned to the VLAN remain intact through the change.
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Change the primary adapter of a team
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Optional deletion of native VLANs
Restrictions
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Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) is not supported.
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The Windows NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager does not support Single Root
I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV).
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You cannot run LACP when multichannel (UMC) is enabled.
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There are restrictions when using VLANs and UMC together. See the Emulex
Universal Multichannel Reference Guide and the Emulex Windows Driver Manual
for more information.
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The NIC Teaming driver does not allow TCP Offload sessions on 802.3ad and
LACP teams.
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Smart Load Balancing teams are not recommended when using clustering
software.
Supported Operating Systems
The Windows NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager supports the following Windows
Server operating systems:
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Windows Server 2012
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Windows Server 2008 R2
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Windows Server 2008
(All versions supported with Hyper-V, Enterprise and Core editions, on x64
platforms only).