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Upon Port 1 link failure, the switch
informs the server hypervisor
for failover on affected VNICs only
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Figure 29. vNIC Failover Solution
Primary
Switch
X
VNIC
Group 1
Port 1
VNIC
Group 2
Port 2
By default, vNIC Teaming Failover is disabled on each vNIC group, but can be
enabled or disabled independently for each vNIC group using the following
commands:
RS 8264CS(config)# vnic vnicgroup <group number>
RS 8264CS(vnic-group-config)# failover
Servers
Virtual
NIC
Pipes
VNIC vSwitch
VNIC
X
VNIC
VNIC
Port 10
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
vSwitch
VNIC
X
VNIC
VNIC
Port 11
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
VNIC
NIC
To Backup
Switch
Hypervisor
VM 1
VM 2
VM 3
VM 4
Hypervisor