Setup Of Adapter Fault Tolerance (Aft)/Adaptive Load Balancing (Alb - NEC BladeServer Express5800 Series User Manual

B-20 Installing the Operating System
Setup of Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT)/Adaptive Load
Balancing (ALB)
Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) is a feature that places more than one LAN controller on the same
LAN (same segment), and automatically switches the process of the primary controller to the
backup controller when any trouble occurs on the primary.
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) is a feature that connects more than one LAN controller to
the same hub and enhances the throughput by operating packet transmission from the server.
This feature includes the AFT feature.
IMPORTANT:
AFT/ALB configuration must be done after installing the drivers and
restarting the system.
The adapters specified as a group for Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT)
can work connected to the same hub or separate hubs. If they are
connected to separate hubs, those hubs must exist on the same LAN
(Segment). Therefore, set the connection as a cascade connection.
The adapters specified as a group for Adaptive Load Balancing
(ALB) can only be connected to the switching hub.
If you want to use the AFT/ALB features, follow the procedure below: