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• You can set up monitoring between an SFT team and up to
five IP addresses. This allows you to detect link failure beyond
the switch. You can ensure connection availability for several
clients that you consider critical. If the connection between
the primary adapter and all of the monitored IP addresses is
lost, the team will failover to the secondary adapter.
• Switch Fault Tolerance can detect failures when they occur
on either teamed adapter, on either cable connecting the
teamed adapter to its switch, or on switch ports connected to
the adapters, if link is lost
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) - uses software to balance
routable traffic among a team of two to eight adapters or LOMs
(the team must include at least one server adapter) connected
to the same subnet. The software analyzes the send and
transmit loading on each adapter and balances the rate across
the adapters based on destination address. Adapter teams
configured for ALB also provide the benefits of fault tolerance.
NOTES:
• ALB does not load balance non-routed protocols such as
NetBEUI and some IPX* traffic.
• You can create an ALB team with mixed speed adapters.
The load is balanced according to the lowest common
denominator of adapter capabilities and the bandwidth of
the channel.
• On Windows systems, Receive Load Balancing is enabled by
default.
• Receive Load Balancing is not supported on Microsoft
Hyper-V.
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