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(for example, higher receive/transmit descriptors or buffers, interrupt coalescence, etc.), or
preference for the team's Primary port to be located on a specific switch.
NFT with Preference Order is a basic feature of HP Integrity Network Adapter Teaming. Refer
to "Basic Teaming Versus Advanced Teaming"

Transmit Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance (TLB)

Transmit Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance (TLB) is a team type that allows the server to load
balance its transmit traffic. TLB is switch independent and supports switch fault tolerance by
allowing the teamed ports to be connected to more than one switch in the same LAN. With TLB,
traffic received by the server is not load balanced. The primary teamed port is responsible for
receiving all traffic destined for the server. In case of a failure of the primary teamed port, the
NFT mechanism ensures connectivity to the server is preserved by selecting another teamed port
to assume the role.
TLB is a basic feature of HP Integrity Network Adapter Teaming. Refer to
Advanced Teaming"

Transmit Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance and Preference Order

Transmit Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance and Preference Order is identical in almost every
way to TLB. The only difference is that this team type allows the SA to prioritize the order in
which teamed ports should be the Primary teamed port. This ability is important in environments
where one or more teamed ports are more preferred than other ports in the same team. The need
for ranking certain teamed ports better than others can be a result of unequal speeds, better
adapter capabilities (for example, higher receive/transmit descriptors or buffers, interrupt
coalescence, etc.), or preference for the team's Primary port to be located on a specific switch.
Transmit Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance and Preference Order is a basic feature of HP
Integrity Network Adapter Teaming. Refer to
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Switch-assisted Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance (SLB)

Switch-assisted Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance (SLB) is a team type that allows full transmit
and receive load balancing. SLB requires the use of a switch that supports some form of Port
Trunking (for example, EtherChannel, MultiLink Trunking, etc.). SLB doesn't support switch
redundancy since all ports in a team must be connected to the same switch. SLB is similar to the
802.3ad Dynamic team type discussed later.
SLB is a basic feature of HP Integrity Network Adapter Teaming that doesn't support any of the
advanced redundancy features described in

802.3ad Dynamic with Fault Tolerance

802.3ad Dynamic with Fault Tolerance is identical to SLB except that the switch must support
the IEEE 802.3ad dynamic configuration protocol called Link Aggregation Control Protocol
(LACP). In addition, the switch port to which the teamed ports are connected must have LACP
enabled. The main benefit of 802.3ad Dynamic is that an SA will not have to manually configure
the switch.
802.3ad Dynamic is a basic feature of HP Integrity Network Adapter Teaming. Refer to
Teaming Versus Advanced Teaming"

Switch-assisted Dual Channel Load Balancing

Switch-assisted Dual Channel Load Balancing, referred to as Dual Channel or a "team of teams",
is a special team type designed by HP to accomplish everything that NFT, TLB and SLB team
types accomplish all in a single team type. Prior to Dual Channel, an HP Integrity Network
Adapter Teaming user had to choose between inbound load balancing (SLB or 802.3ad Dynamic)
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