Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual
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OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual
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3. Using the OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager
Creating, Configuring, and Removing Teams
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GUID is be used in event log messages instead of the adapter's Friendly
Name. Exceeding these limits has no other known consequences.
4. Choose a team type. Valid options:
Failover – A type of switch-independent teaming. If Failover is selected, the
Automatic Failback Enabled check box is available. Check “Automatic Failback
Enabled” if you want the traffic to failback to the primary team member when
the primary member recovers from a failure. Clear this check box if you want
traffic to continue on a secondary adapter. For more information, see “Failover
Load balancing – A type of switch independent teaming. Load balancing
enables both transmit and receive load balancing to maintain in-order delivery
of frames. For more information, see “Smart Load Balancing” on page 747.
LACP– A type of switch-dependent teaming. For more information, see “IEEE
802.3ad and LACP Team Types” on page 749.
802.3ad – A type of switch-dependent teaming. For more information, see “IEEE
802.3ad and LACP Team Types” on page 749.
5. For team types other than failover, select the Load Distributed By list and select
from the following:
Perceived Port Load – Selects the port with the least traffic load for the session.
Destination MAC Address – Performs an XOR on the destination MAC address
to determine which port should carry the load.
Destination IP Address – Performs an XOR on the destination and source IP
address to determine which port should carry the load.
6. When the team type selected is LACP, the “Short Timeout” check box is available.
Select this check box to use short timeout for LACP operations. If this check box is
not checked, the standard long timeout is used.
7. Change the reactivation delay value, if desired. The reactivation delay is the
number of seconds the adapter waits to bring a port back online within a team. The
delay ensures that the port is stable and reduces any port jitter that might occur.
Setting a reactivation delay value on this tab overrides the default global
reactivation delay value for the team.
8. In the discovery-tree, select one or more adapters in the Available Adapter list and
click
in the Team Members area of the Create Team tab. The adapter is moved
from the discovery-tree to the Team Members area. A minimum of two adapters
must be selected to create a team of any type. At least one Emulex adapter must be
selected, and it must be made the Primary adapter.
Note: The number of maximum adapters for a team depends upon the team type.
The maximum number of adapters per type of team are
Failover teams - 3
Load balance teams - 8
IEEE 802.3ad and LACP - 4
9. Select the primary adapter and create the team.