HP ProLiant ML310 G3 1TB, Administration Manual

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Team type selection
In the Team Settings section of the Team Properties page, you have the option of selecting several team
types from a drop-down list box (see Figure 18 ). These team types allow fl exibility in your networking
environment. The sections below describe these team types.
Figure 18 Team Properties page, Team Type Selection drop-down list box
Automatic (Recommended)
The Automatic team type is not really an individual team type. Automatic teams decide whether to
operate as a Network Fault Tolerance (NFT) or a Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) team or as an 802.3ad
Dynamic team. If all teamed ports are connected to a switch that supports the IEEE 802.3ad Link
Aggregation Protocol (LACP) and all teamed ports are able to negotiate 802.3ad operation with the
switch, then the team will choose to operate as an 802.3ad Dynamic team. However, if the switch
doesn’t support LACP or if any ports in the team don’t have successful LACP negotiation with the switch,
the team will choose to operate as a TLB team. As network and server con fi gurations change, the
Automatic team type ensures that HP ProLiant servers intelligently choose between TLB and 802.3ad
Dynamic to minimize server recon fi guration.
802.3ad Dynamic with Fault Tolerance
802.3ad Dynamic with Fault Tolerance is identical to Switch-assisted Load Balancing with Fault Tolerance
(SLB) except that the switch must support the IEEE 802.3ad dynamic con fi guration protocol called
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP). In addition, the switch port to which the teamed ports are
connected must have LACP enabled. The main bene fi t of 802.3ad Dynamic is that an administrator
will not have to manually con fi gure the switch.
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Network adapter teaming