User Manual

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8.5.1.1 Teaming (Bundle) Modes
1. Fault Tolerance
Provides automatic redundancy for the server’s network connection. If the primary adapter
fails, the secondary adapter (currently in a standby mode) takes over. Fault Tolerance is the
basis for each of the following teaming types and is inherent in all teaming modes.
2. Switch Fault Tolerance
Provides a failover relationship between two adapters when each adapter is connected to a
separate switch.
3. Send Load Balancing
Provides load balancing of transmit traffic and fault tolerance. The load balancing performs
only on the send port.
4. Load Balancing (Send & Receive)
Provides load balancing of transmit and receive traffic and fault tolerance. The load balancing
splits the transmit and receive traffic statically among the team adapters (without changing
the base of the traffic loading) based on the source/destination MAC and IP addresses.
5. Adaptive Load Balancing
The same functionality as Load Balancing (Send & Receive). In case of traffic load in one of
the adapters, the load balancing channels the traffic between the other team adapter.
6. Dynamic Link Aggregation (802.3ad)
Provides dynamic link aggregation allowing creation of one or more channel groups using
same speed or mixed-speed server adapters.
7. Static Link Aggregation (802.3ad)
Provides increased transmission and reception throughput in a team comprised of two to eight
adapter ports through static configuration.
If the switch connected to the HCA supports 802.3ad the recommended setting is teaming mode 6.
8.5.2 Creating a Load Balancing and Fail-Over (LBFO) Bundle
LBFO is used to balance the workload of packet transfers by distributing the workload over a
bundle of network instances and to set a secondary network instance to take over packet indica-
tions and information requests if the primary network instance fails.
The following steps describe the process of creating an LBFO bundle.