HP Auto Port Aggregation Administrator's Guide HP-UX 11i v3 (766140-001, March 2014)

Figure 7 Sample Failover Group (LAN_MONITOR) Configuration
LAN
Active Standby
SwitchSwitch
LAN Monitor 2-Port
Failover Group
LAN
Active 2 Standby
Links
SwitchSwitch
LAN Monitor
3-Port
Failover Group
Failover group using link aggregates
Figure 8 (page 23) shows a failover group that uses link aggregates as the active and standby
devices to increase the network bandwidth through load balancing across the physical links. This
configuration has the following characteristics:
• You can use any HP APA link aggregate, as a device in the failover group.
• The standby link does not have to be a link aggregation. It can be a single physical link of
the same type as used in the link aggregation.
• Dual switches are not required. However, dual switches provide a more reliable network
environment by removing the switch as a single point of failure. If two switches are used, there
must be a data path between them.
22 Configuring APA