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

Contents
HP secure development lifecycle......................................................................6
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Conceptual overview.................................................................................................................7
Link aggregate....................................................................................................................8
Load balancing...............................................................................................................8
Failover group.....................................................................................................................9
Proactive failover.............................................................................................................9
TCP Segmentation Offload..................................................................................................10
VLAN support...................................................................................................................11
Interoperability with HP Serviceguard........................................................................................11
Administrative methods............................................................................................................11
HP System Management Homepage.....................................................................................11
nwmgr command...............................................................................................................12
Manually editing configuration files......................................................................................13
2 Installing the APA software........................................................................14
Installation requirements..........................................................................................................14
Product dependencies.........................................................................................................14
Hardware requirements......................................................................................................14
Supported switches........................................................................................................14
Supported LAN cards....................................................................................................14
Operating system requirements............................................................................................14
Software requirements .......................................................................................................14
Installing the software..............................................................................................................14
Verifying the installation .........................................................................................................15
Removing the software............................................................................................................15
3 Configuring APA......................................................................................17
HP APA configuration examples................................................................................................17
Enterprise intranet client/server environment..........................................................................17
Internet or large enterprise environments using routers.............................................................18
Server-to-Server (Back-to-Back).............................................................................................19
LAN Monitor for high availability.........................................................................................20
Failover group...................................................................................................................21
Failover group using link aggregates ...................................................................................22
Preparing for configuration......................................................................................................23
Link aggregate advanced parameters........................................................................................26
Failover group advanced parameters........................................................................................27
Configuring a link aggregate...................................................................................................27
Configuring a failover group....................................................................................................29
Configuring an IP address........................................................................................................30
Configuring the link partner.....................................................................................................30
Configuring HP Serviceguard...................................................................................................30
Creating VLANs over APA.......................................................................................................30
Verifying the configuration.......................................................................................................31
What happens during start up?................................................................................................31
4 Administering HP APA...............................................................................32
Modifying a link aggregate.....................................................................................................32
Modifying a failover group......................................................................................................32
Deleting a link aggregate........................................................................................................32
Deleting a failover group.........................................................................................................34
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