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Using advanced networking features In this section Configuring advanced features ...21 Advanced Pack redundancy features ...25 Configuring advanced features With an INP-Windows Edition license installed on your system, you can enable six advanced teaming types: • Switch-assisted Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance • Switch-assisted Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance and Preference Order • 802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance • 802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance and Preference Order • Switch-assisted Dual Channel Load Balancing • 802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel Load Balancing You also can enable three advanced redundancy features: • Active Path Failover • Fast Path Failover. • Router Path Failover This section describes how to configure these advanced networking features through the NCU. You can also configure these features using the HP Network Adapter Scripting Utility. For information on how to use the scripting utility, refer to the HP Network Adapter Scripting Utility User Guide. Advanced Pack teaming types The HP network adapter basic team types provide a selection of fault-tolerant and load-balancing features, including Network Fault Tolerance (NFT), Transmit Load Balancing (TLB), and Switch-assisted Load Balancing (SLB). Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance Dual Channel NFT provides the safety of additional backup-links between the server and hub/switch. It is implemented with one channel team providing a primary adapter and another channel team providing a secondary, backup adapter. During normal operations, if the adapters in the primary team fail, a link to one of the adapters in the secondary, backup team automatically takes over. Four types of Dual Channel NFT teams can be configured: • Switch-assisted Dual Channel NFT • Switch-assisted Dual Channel NFT and Preference Order • 802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel NFT • 802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel NFT and Preference Order Using advanced networking features 21

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Using advanced networking features
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Using advanced networking features
In this section
Configuring advanced features
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Advanced Pack redundancy features
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Configuring advanced features
With an INP-Windows Edition license installed on your system, you can enable six advanced teaming
types:
•
Switch-assisted Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance
•
Switch-assisted Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance and Preference Order
•
802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance
•
802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance and Preference Order
•
Switch-assisted Dual Channel Load Balancing
•
802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel Load Balancing
You also can enable three advanced redundancy features:
•
Active Path Failover
•
Fast Path Failover.
•
Router Path Failover
This section describes how to configure these advanced networking features through the NCU. You can
also configure these features using the HP Network Adapter Scripting Utility. For information on how to
use the scripting utility, refer to the
HP Network Adapter Scripting Utility User Guide
.
Advanced Pack teaming types
The HP network adapter basic team types provide a selection of fault-tolerant and load-balancing
features, including Network Fault Tolerance (NFT), Transmit Load Balancing (TLB), and Switch-assisted
Load Balancing (SLB).
Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance
Dual Channel NFT provides the safety of additional backup-links between the server and hub/switch. It is
implemented with one channel team providing a primary adapter and another channel team providing a
secondary, backup adapter. During normal operations, if the adapters in the primary team fail, a link to
one of the adapters in the secondary, backup team automatically takes over.
Four types of Dual Channel NFT teams can be configured:
•
Switch-assisted Dual Channel NFT
•
Switch-assisted Dual Channel NFT and Preference Order
•
802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel NFT
•
802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel NFT and Preference Order