HP Integrity Network Adapter Teaming Whitepaper

Figure 3-5 How to choose the best team type
NIC Teaming
is not needed
NO
I need
NIC Fault
Tolerance and/or
Load
Balancing
I want to
manually
configure the
Team type
I need Fault
Tolerance (FT)
and Load Balancing
I need more
inbound
bandwidth (Rx)
AND
outbound
bandwidth (Tx)
I ONLY
need
Fault Tolerance
I ONLY
need more
outbound
bandwidth
(Tx)
I NEED
switch
redundancy
What type of NIC Team do I Need?
I need to
designate the
order in which
ports become
Primary
YES
YES
YES
YES
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
Choose
Team
Type
“Network
Fault
Tolerant
Only”
Choose
Team
Type
“Network Fault
Tolerant
Only with
Preference
Order”
NFT
I need to
designate the
order in which
ports become
Primary
YES
YES
NO
Choose
Team Type
“Transmit Load
Balancing
with Fault
Tolerance
and
Preference
Order”
Connect
Teamed
ports to
ONE
switch
Connect
Teamed
ports to
TWO
switches
Choose
Team Type
“Transmit Load
Balancing
with Fault
Tolerance”
TLB
I want
to manually
configure
switch
Choose
Team
Type
“Switch
Assisted
Load
Balancing
with FT
(SLB)”
Choose
Team
Type
“802.3ad
Dynamic
with FT”
SLB
802.3ad
Dynamic
All NICs
connected to a
single IEEE 802.3ad
capable
switch?
YES
NO
Choose
Team Type
“Automatic”
Automatic
Team Type
Automatically
set to IEEE
802.3ad
Team Type
Automatically
set to TLB
I want
to manually
configure
both switches
YES
NO
Choose
Team Type
“802.3ad
Dynamic
Dual
Channel”
Choose
Team Type
“Switch
Assisted
Dual Channel
Load
Balancing”
Dual Channel
Dynamic
Dual Channel
Manually Configure
NIC Preference
Manually
enable port
trunking/
channeling
on switch
ports for
BOTH
switches
Manually
Divide NICs
into
“Group A”
and
“Group B”
Manually
enable port
trunking/
channeling
on switch
ports
No switch
configuration
required if switch
ports already
have IEEE
802.3ad enabled
No switch
configuration
required if switch
ports already
have IEEE
802.3ad enabled
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