Configuring Teaming; Supported Features By Team Type - Qlogic FastLinQ 3400 Series User Manual

15–QLogic Teaming Services
Executive Summary

Configuring Teaming

The QCC GUI is used to configure teaming in the supported operating system
environments and is designed to run on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows family of
operating systems. The QCC GUI is used to configure load balancing and fault
tolerance teaming, and VLANs. In addition, it displays the MAC address, driver
version, and status information about each network adapter. The QCC GUI also
includes a number of diagnostics tools such as hardware diagnostics, cable
testing, and a network topology test.

Supported Features by Team Type

Table 15-3
determine the best type of team for your application. The teaming software
supports up to eight ports in a single team and up to 16 teams in a single system.
These teams can be any combination of the supported teaming types, but each
team must be on a separate network or subnet.
Type of Team
Function
Number of ports
per team (same
broadcast domain)
Number of teams
Adapter fault toler-
ance
Switch link fault tol-
erance (same
broadcast domain)
TX load balancing
RX load balancing
Requires compati-
ble switch
Heartbeats to
check connectivity
provides a feature comparison across the team types. Use this table to
Table 15-3. Comparison of Team Types
Fault Load
Tolerance Balancing
SLB with
SLB
a
Standby
2–16 2–16
16 16
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No Yes
No Yes
No No
No No
Switch-Dependent
Static Trunking
Generic Trunking
2–16
16
Yes
Switch-dependent
Yes
Yes (performed by the
switch)
Yes
No
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Switch-Independent
Dynamic Link
Aggregation
(IEEE 802.3ad)
Link Aggregation
2–16
16
Yes
Switch-dependent
Yes
Yes (performed by the
switch)
Yes
No
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