Team Type Selection; Automatic (Recommended); 802.3Ad Dynamic With Fault Tolerance; Team Properties Page, Team Type Selection Drop-Down List Box - HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Administration Manual

Team type selection

In the Team Settings section of the Team Properties page, you have the option of selecting several team
types from a drop-down list box (see
environment. The sections below describe these team types.
Figure 63 Team Properties page, Team Type Selection drop-down list box

Automatic (Recommended)

The Automatic team type is not really an individual team type. Automatic teams decide whether to
operate as a Network Fault Tolerance (NFT) or a Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) team or as an 802.3ad
Dynamic team. If all teamed ports are connected to a switch that supports the IEEE 802.3ad Link
Aggregation Protocol (LACP) and all teamed ports are able to negotiate 802.3ad operation with the
switch, then the team will choose to operate as an 802.3ad Dynamic team. However, if the switch does
not support LACP or if any ports in the team do not have successful LACP negotiation with the switch, the
team will choose to operate as a TLB team. As network and server configurations change, the Automatic
team type ensures that HP ProLiant servers intelligently choose between TLB and 802.3ad Dynamic to
minimize server reconfiguration.

802.3ad Dynamic with Fault Tolerance

802.3ad Dynamic with Fault Tolerance is identical to Switch-assisted Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance
(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 administrator
will not have to manually configure the switch.
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Network adapter teaming
Figure 63). These team types allow flexibility in your networking