HP Integrity rx2800 HP Integrity Network Adapter Teaming Whitepaper - Page 21
How to choose the best team type, Dynamic, Automatic, Dual Channel
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Figure 3-5 How to choose the best team type What type of NIC Team do I Need? NIC Teaming is not needed NO I need NIC Fault Tolerance and/or Load Balancing Choose Team Type "Network Fault Tolerant Only" Choose Team Type "Network Fault Tolerant Only with Preference Order" NO I need to designate the order in which ports become Primary YES NFT Manually Configure NIC Preference YES I want to manually NO configure the Team type YES YES I ONLY need Fault Tolerance NO I need Fault Tolerance (FT) and Load Balancing Choose Team Type "Automatic" Team Type Automatically set to IEEE 802.3ad YES All NICs connected to a single IEEE 802.3ad capable switch? NO Team Type Automatically set to TLB Automatic Choose Team Type "Transmit Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance and Preference Order" Choose Team Type "Transmit Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance" YES I need to designate the order in which ports become Primary NO TLB Choose Team Type "Switch Assisted Load Balancing with FT (SLB)" Manually enable port trunking/ channeling on switch ports Choose Team Type "802.3ad Dynamic with FT" No switch configuration required if switch ports already have IEEE 802.3ad enabled I ONLY need more outbound bandwidth (Tx) NO I need more inbound bandwidth (Rx) AND outbound bandwidth (Tx) I NEED switch redundancy NO YES Manually enable port trunking/ channeling on switch ports for BOTH switches Choose Team Type "802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel" No switch configuration required if switch ports already have IEEE 802.3ad enabled Manually Divide NICs into "Group A" and "Group B" Choose Team Type "Switch Assisted Dual Channel Load Balancing" NO YES I want to manually configure both switches I want to manually configure switch SLB 802.3ad Dynamic Connect Teamed ports to ONE switch Connect Teamed ports to TWO switches Dual Channel Dynamic Dual Channel How to Choose the Best Team Type 21