Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 799)

OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual P009415-01A Rev. A
5. OneCommand NIC Teaming Manager Command Line Interface
The Command Reference
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Parameters
Description
This command creates a team. The team-name is the name for the team that is to be
created. The name cannot exceed 79 characters and must be unique. The adapters listed
as part of the team must not be part of another team and must not have VLANs
assigned to them. The first adapter listed becomes the primary adapter; this must be an
Emulex adapter.
Note: When creating a team name, keep in mind that the team name will be
prepended to the Device Manager Friendly Name of all adapters included in the
team. If the addition of the team name causes the adapter's Friendly Name to
exceed 52 character on x86 systems or 169 character on x64 systems, then event
log messages for the adapter may be affected. When these limits are exceeded,
the adapter's GUID may be used in event log messages instead of the adapter's
Friendly Name. Exceeding these limits has no other known consequences.
Note: You cannot disable an adapter port that is part of an 802.3ad static team. If you
do, I/O will fail because an 802.3ad team or a LACP team is switch dependent.
When using an 802.3ad static team or a LACP team, you must disable links by
disabling the switch port.
The number of allowable team members varies with team type. Failover teams must
have at least 2 members and may have up to 3. Load balancing teams must have from 2
to 8 members. LACP and 802.3ad teams must have from 2 to 4 members.
The auto-failback-setting is only used for failover teams. This setting specifies whether
the team should automatically resume using the primary adapter once it becomes
available again after the team has failed over to the secondary adapter.
A maximum of 16 teams can be created. Use the abbreviated names from Table 5-2
when specifying the team type on Load Balancing, LACP and 802.3ad teams from the
command line.
When the team is created, MTU information is collected. If there is an MTU discrepancy
between members, a warning is displayed. This warning does not affect the creation of
the team.
For LACP teams there is an optional argument, shortTO, which specifies that the
protocol's short timeout is to be used. If this is not specified, the standard long timeout
is used.
auto-failback-setting
fbenabled or fbdisabled
hash
Hash algorithm
Table 5-2 Hash Algorithms
Hash Algorithm Abbreviation
Perceived adapter load percload
Destination MAC destmac
Destination IP destip