HP ProLiant ML310 G3 Data Protection Storage Server administration guide (June 2006)

Team type selection
In the Team Settings section of the Team Properties page, you have the option of selecting several team
types from a drop-down list box (see Figure 18). These team types allow flexibility in your networking
environment. The sections below describe these team types.
Figure 1
8 Team Properties page, Team Type S election drop-down list box
Automatic (Recommended)
The Automatic team type is not really an individual team type. Automatic teams decide whether to
operate as a Network Fault Tolerance (NFT) or a Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) team or as a n 802.3ad
Dynamic team. If all teamed ports are connected to a switch that supports the IEEE 802.3ad Link
Aggregation Protocol (L ACP) and all teamed p o rts are able to negotiate 802.3ad opera tion with the
switch, then the team will choose to operate as an 802.3ad Dynamic team. However, if the switch
doesn’t support L ACP or if any ports in the team don’t have successful L ACP negotiation with the switch,
the team will choose to o perate as a TLB team. As network and server configurations change, the
Automatic team type ensures that HP ProLiant servers intelligently choose between TLB and 802.3ad
Dynamic to minimize server reconfiguration.
80 2.3ad Dynamic with Fault Toler ance
802.3ad D ynamic with Fault Tolerance is identical to Switch-assisted Load Bala ncing with Fault Tolerance
(SLB) except that the switch must suppor t the IEEE 802.3ad dynamic configuration protocol called
Lin
k Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP). In addition, the switch p ort to which the teamed ports are
con
nected must have LACP enabled. The main benefit of 802.3ad Dynamic is that an administrator
willnothavetomanuallyconfigure the switch.
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Network adap ter team ing