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3 Virtual LANs in Windows
This chapter provides information about VLANs in Windows for teaming.
 VLAN Overview
 “Adding VLANs to Teams” on page 16
VLAN Overview
Virtual LANs (VLANs) allow you to split your physical LAN into logical parts, to
create logical segmentation of work groups, and to enforce security policies for
each logical segment. Each defined VLAN behaves as its own separate network
with its traffic and broadcasts isolated from the others, increasing bandwidth
efficiency within each logical group. Up to 64 VLANs (63 tagged and 1 untagged)
can be defined for each QLogic adapter on your server, depending on the amount
of memory available in your system.
VLANs can be added to a team to allow multiple VLANs with different VLAN IDs.
A virtual adapter is created for each VLAN added.