Trunking; Figure 6-10. New Vlan Screen - Supermicro SuperBlade SBM-GEM-X2C User Manual

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3. Click on the C
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4. If you want to remove this VLAN, click on the R
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5. To change the port member state or remove a VLAN, select the VLAN either from
the VLAN ID drop down menu or by clicking on the VLAN ID in the table in
Figure 6-8. This screen shows the current member state of the selected VLAN.
Users can modify the port member state, apply a change or remove the VLAN.
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Trunking

Trunking aggregates multiple physical ports link into a single trunk to provide a single
logical high-speed pipeline link. This is useful for switch-to-switch, switch-to-server and
switch-to-router applications. The SuperMicro Gigabit Ethernet switch supports static
type link aggregations. It uses a distribution algorithm to balance traffic between trunk
members. This aggregates the bandwidth of the trunk. The switch considers a trunk as a
single port entity regardless of the trunk composition.
The switch supports up to four separate trunks. Each trunk consists of 2 to 8 ports. A
port in one trunk cannot simultaneously be in another trunk. Link aggregation is
supported only on point-to-point links with the MAC operating in full duplex mode. All
links in a trunk must operate at the same data rate.
The links within a trunk should have an equal amount of traffic to achieve maximum
efficiency in a multiple-link trunk. Thus, some sort of load balancing among the links in a
trunk is employed. One requirement for load balancing is that the frames being
button to create the new VLAN. A new VLAN is shown in
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Figure 6-10. New VLAN Screen

VLAN to list all of current VLAN configuration.
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VLAN button. Click on