How To Choose The Best Team Type - HP Integrity rx2800 - i2 White Paper

Figure 3-5 How to choose the best team type
NIC Teaming
is not needed
Choose
Team
Type
NO
"Network
Fault
Tolerant
Only"
I need to
designate the
order in which
ports become
Primary
Choose
YES
Team
Type
"Network Fault
Tolerant
Only with
Preference
Order"
Manually Configure
NIC Preference
Choose
Team Type
"Transmit Load
YES
Balancing
with Fault
Tolerance
and
Preference I need to
Order"
designate the
order in which
ports become
Primary
Choose
Team Type
NO
"Transmit Load
Balancing
with Fault
Tolerance"
Choose
Choose
Team
Team
Type
Type
"Switch
"802.3ad
Assisted
Dynamic
Load
with FT"
Balancing
with FT
(SLB)"
Manually
No switch
enable port
configuration
trunking/
required if switch
channeling
ports already
on switch
have IEEE
ports
802.3ad enabled
I want
to manually
configure
switch
What type of NIC Team do I Need?
I need
NO
NIC Fault
Tolerance and/or
Load
Balancing
YES
I want to
manually
configure the
Team type
YES
YES
I ONLY
need
Fault Tolerance
NO
NFT
I need Fault
Tolerance (FT)
and Load Balancing
I ONLY
need more
outbound
bandwidth
(Tx)
NO
I need more
inbound
bandwidth (Rx)
AND
TLB
outbound
bandwidth (Tx)
I NEED
switch
redundancy
NO
Connect
Teamed
SLB
ports to
802.3ad
ONE
switch
Dynamic
Choose
Team Type
"Automatic"
NO
Choose
Team Type
"802.3ad
Dynamic
Dual
Channel"
No switch
configuration
required if switch
ports already
have IEEE
802.3ad enabled
NO
YES
Connect
Teamed
ports to
TWO
switches

How to Choose the Best Team Type

Team Type
Automatically
set to IEEE
802.3ad
YES
All NICs
connected to a
single IEEE 802.3ad
capable
switch?
NO
Team Type
Automatically
set to TLB
Automatic
Manually
enable port
trunking/
channeling
on switch
ports for
BOTH
switches
Manually
Divide NICs
into
"Group A"
and
"Group B"
Choose
Team Type
"Switch
Assisted
Dual Channel
Load
Balancing"
YES
I want
to manually
configure
both switches
Dual Channel
Dynamic
Dual Channel
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