Creating A Nic Team - Dell S5000 Deployment/Configuration Manual

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Figure 80: Windows view in Device Manager of one Broadcom BCM57810S CNA with NPAR and FCoE enabled

Creating a NIC Team

Since the NICs and HBAs are seen as separate ports, we can treat them as separate entities and create

a NIC team with the virtual CNA NICs. To configure a NIC team on our two virtual NIC ports, click the

'Filter' drop-down box on the top left of the 'Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 4' GUI and select

'TEAM VIEW'. Right click 'Teams' and select 'Create Team'. Click 'Next'. Name your NIC Team if desired

and click 'Next'; in our case, we leave it as the default of "Team 1". Now you should see the options as

displayed in Figure 81 below.

Figure 81: NIC teaming virtual NIC ports with Smart Load Balancing and Failover (SLB)

In Figure 81 above, you can see we NIC team using 'Smart Load Balancing™ and Failover (SLB)". We

configure active-standby links for LAN up to the S5000 switches. Note, the switch will not be aware of

the NIC team and no LAG configuration will be required on upstream switches.

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