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Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Teaming Services NetXtreme User Guide
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April 2017 • 2CS57XX-CDUM514-R Page 112
Selecting a Team Type
The following flow chart provides the decision flow when planning for teaming. The primary rationale for teaming
is the need for additional network bandwidth and fault tolerance. Teaming offers link aggregation and fault
tolerance to meet both of these requirements. Preference teaming should be selected in the following order: Link
Aggregation as the first choice, Generic Trunking as the second choice, and SLB teaming as the third choice
when using unmanaged switches or switches that do not support the first two options. If switch fault tolerance
is a requirement, then SLB is the only choice (see
Figure 3 ).
Figure 3: Process for Selecting a Team Type