HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Data Protection Storage Server Administration Guide (434184-001, September 2006)

Team type selection
In the Team Set tings section of the Team Properties page, you have the option of selecting several team
types from a drop-down list box (see Figure 25). These team types allow flexibility in your networking
environment. The sections below describe these team types.
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5 Team Properties page, Team Type Selection drop-down list box
Automatic (Recommended)
The Automatic team type is not really a n individual team type. Automatic teams decide whether to
operate as a Network Fault Tolerance (NFT) or a Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) team or as an 802.3ad
Dynamic team. If all teamed ports are connected to a switch that supports the IEEE 802.3ad Link
Aggregation Protocol (LACP) and all teamed ports are able to neg otiate 802.3ad operation with the
switch, then the team will choose to operate as an 802.3ad Dynamic team. However, if the switch does
not suppor t L ACP or if any por ts in the team do not have successful LACP negotiation with the switch, the
team will choose to operate as a TLB team. As network and server config urations change, the Automatic
team type ensures tha t HP ProLiant servers intelligently choose between T LB and 802.3ad Dynamic to
minimize server reconfiguration.
80 2.3ad Dynamic with Fault Tolerance
802.3ad Dynamic with Fault Tolerance is identical to Switch-assisted Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance
(SLB) except that the switch must support the IEEE 802.3ad dynamic confi guration protocol called
Lin
k Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) . In addition, the switch port to which the teamed por ts are
con
nected must have LACP enabled. The main benefit of 802.3ad Dynamic is that an administrator
willnothavetomanuallyconfigu re the switch.
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Network adapter teaming