3–Adapter Management Applications
Windows Management Applications
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Link aggregation mode has transmit load balancing and fail safety support. If a
link connected through a participant port of a link-aggregated team goes down,
LACP provides failover and load balancing across the remaining members of the
team. In addition, if a new member port is added to the team or is removed from
the team, the switch performs load re-balancing for the receive operation and the
driver performs load balancing for the transmit operation, to accommodate the
change in configuration.
Transmit load distribution in LACP provides the following options:
None
indicates no traffic distribution. Only a single “active” adapter is used
for transmit. The driver selects the active adapter based on LACP state
information.
Auto Select
indicates that the load is distributed based on the target IP
address and port number. This option ensures a one-to-one correspondence
between a traffic flow and a team adapter.
MAC address based
indicates that the load is distributed based on the target
MAC address.
Using the CLI for Teaming
You can view, create, configure, and delete teams using QConvergeConsole.
To view a list of teams, issue the following command:
qaucli -nic –teamlist
To view team information, issue the following command:
qaucli -nic -teaminfo <
team_inst
|ALL>
To preview available ports before configuring a new team, issue this command:
qaucli -nic -teamnew_portspreview
To configure a new team, issue the following command:
qaucli -nic -teamnew <
team_type
> <
port_insts
|ALL>
where
port_insts
are the ports indices separated by commas (for
example, 1,2) and
team_type
is either
1
=Fail Over or
2
=Load Balanced.
To delete a team, issue the following command:
qaucli -nic -teamdel <
team_inst
|ALL>
