Users Guide

11–QLogic Teaming Services
Executive Summary
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Selecting a Team Type
The following flow chart provides the decision flow when planning for Layer 2
teaming. The primary rationale for teaming is the need for additional network
bandwidth and fault tolerance. Teaming offers link aggregation and fault tolerance
to meet both of these requirements. Preference teaming should be selected in the
following order:
 First choice: Link Aggregation
 Second choice: Generic Trunking
 Third choice: SLB, when using unmanaged switches or switches that do not
support the first two choices. If switch fault tolerance is a requirement, SLB
is the only choice.