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8 (Optional) On the Teaming and failover page, use the drop-down menus to edit the settings and click
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Option Description
Load balancing IP-based teaming requires that the physical switch be configured with ether
channel. For all other options, ether channel should be disabled. Select how to
choose an uplink.
n
Route based on the originating virtual port. Choose an uplink based on
the virtual port where the traffic entered the distributed switch.
n
Route based on IP hash. Choose an uplink based on a hash of the source
and destination IP addresses of each packet. For non-IP packets, whatever is
at those offsets is used to compute the hash.
n
Route based on source MAC hash. Choose an uplink based on a hash of
the source Ethernet.
n
Route based on physical NIC load. Choose an uplink based on the current
loads of physical NICs.
n
Use explicit failover order. Always use the highest order uplink, from the list
of Active adapters, which passes failover detection criteria.
Network failure detection Select the method to use for failover detection.
n
Link status only. Relies solely on the link status that the network adapter
provides. This option detects failures, such as cable pulls and physical switch
power failures, but not configuration errors, such as a physical switch port
being blocked by spanning tree or that is misconfigured to the wrong VLAN or
cable pulls on the other side of a physical switch.
n
Beacon probing. Sends out and listens for beacon probes on all NICs in the
team and uses this information, in addition to link status, to determine link
failure. Do not use beacon probing with IP-hash load balancing.
Notify switches Select Yes or No to notify switches in the case of failover. Do not use this option
when the virtual machines using the port group are using Microsoft Network Load
Balancing in unicast mode.
If you select Yes, whenever a virtual NIC is connected to the distributed switch or
whenever that virtual NIC’s traffic is routed over a different physical NIC in the
team because of a failover event, a notification is sent out over the network to
update the lookup tables on physical switches. Use this process for the lowest
latency of failover occurrences and migrations with vMotion.
Failback Select Yes or No to disable or enable failback.
This option determines how a physical adapter is returned to active duty after
recovering from a failure.
n
Yes (default). The adapter is returned to active duty immediately upon
recovery, displacing the standby adapter that took over its slot, if any.
n
No. A failed adapter is left inactive even after recovery until another currently
active adapter fails, requiring its replacement.
Failover order Select how to distribute the work load for uplinks. To use some uplinks but
reserve others in case the uplinks in use fail, set this condition by moving them
into different groups.
n
Active uplinks. Continue to use the uplink when the network adapter
connectivity is up and active.
n
Standby uplinks . Use this uplink if one of the active adapter’s connectivity is
down. When using IP-hash load balancing, do not configure standby uplinks.
n
Unused uplinks . Do not use this uplink.
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