Setup Team - NEC Express5800 User Manual

Setup Team

Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) is a feature that creates a group containing more than one adapter
and automatically converts the process of the working adapter to the other adapter in the group
when any trouble occurred on that adapter.
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) is a feature that creates a group containing more than one adapter
and enhances the throughput by operating packet transmission from the server by all the adapters.
This feature includes AFT feature.
Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT) is a feature that provides a failover relationship between two ports
when each port is connected to a separate switch.
SFT supports two ports per team.
Static Link Aggregation (SLA) accounts for the GEC and 802.3ad static protocols.
SLA is a switch-assisted teaming mode and requires configuring ports at both ends of the link:
server interfaces and switch ports.
IMPORTANT:
AFT/ALB setup must be operated after installing the
drivers/PROSet and restarting the system.
All the adapters specified as a group of Adapter Teaming must
exist on the same LAN. If they are connected to the separate
switches, they will not work normally.
The adapters specified as a group of Adaptive Load Balancing
(ALB) can be connected to only Switching Hub.
When exchange the mother board or option network card, make
sure to remove the adapter team before exchanges and recreate the
adapter team after exchange complete.
Confirm the port setting of switching hub (L2) matches the server
network adapter Teaming mode.
Create Team
1.
Open the [Device Manager].
2. Open [Network adapters] → [Intel(R) xxx] properties.
3.
Click [Teaming] tab and check the [Team this adapter with other adapters] check box.
Click [New Team].
4.
Fill the name of the team in [Specify a name for the team] and click [Next].
5.
Include the adapter to the team and click [Next].
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