Table of Contents
1 Introduction......................................................................................................................9
Conceptual overview..............................................................................................................................9
Link aggregate...................................................................................................................................9
Load balancing...........................................................................................................................10
Failover group.................................................................................................................................11
Proactive failover........................................................................................................................11
TCP Segmentation Offload..............................................................................................................12
VLAN support.................................................................................................................................12
Administrative methods.......................................................................................................................13
nwmgr command............................................................................................................................15
Installation requirements......................................................................................................................17
Product dependencies.....................................................................................................................17
Hardware requirements..................................................................................................................17
Supported switches....................................................................................................................17
Supported LAN cards................................................................................................................17
Software requirements ....................................................................................................................18
Installing the software...........................................................................................................................18
Verifying the installation ......................................................................................................................18
Removing the software.........................................................................................................................19
3 Configuring APA..........................................................................................................21
Failover group.................................................................................................................................27
Preparing for configuration..................................................................................................................29
Configuring a link aggregate................................................................................................................34
Configuring a failover group................................................................................................................35
Configuring an IP address....................................................................................................................37
Configuring the link partner.................................................................................................................37
Configuring HP Serviceguard..............................................................................................................37
Creating VLANs over APA...................................................................................................................37
Verifying the configuration...................................................................................................................38
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