Configuration Monitoring
You can set up monitoring between an SFT team and up to five IP addresses. This allows you to detect link
failure beyond the switch. You can ensure connection availability for several clients that you consider critical.
If the connection between the primary adapter and all of the monitored IP addresses is lost, the team will
failover to the secondary adapter.
Adaptive Load Balancing
Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) uses software to balance routable traffic among a team of two to eight
adapters or LOMs (the team must include at least one server adapter) connected to the same subnet. The
software analyzes the send and transmit loading on each adapter and balances the rate across the adapters
based on destination address. Adapter teams configured for ALB also provide the benefits of fault tolerance.
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ALB does not load balance non-routed protocols such as NetBEUI and some IPX* traffic.
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You can create an ALB team with mixed speed adapters. The load is balanced according to
the lowest common denominator of adapter capabilities and the bandwidth of the channel.
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On Windows systems, Receive Load Balancing is enabled by default.
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Receive Load Balancing is not supported on Microsoft Hyper-V*.
Virtual Machine Load Balancing
Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VMLB) provides transmit and receive traffic load balancing across Virtual
Machines bound to the team interface, as well as fault tolerance in the event of switch port, cable, or adapter
failure.
The driver analyzes the transmit and receive load on each member adapter and balances the traffic across
member adapters. In a VMLB team, each Virtual Machine is associated with one team member for its TX and
RX traffic.
If only one virtual NIC is bound to the team, or if Hyper-V is removed, then the VMLB team will act like an ALB
team.
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VMLB does not load balance non-routed protocols such as NetBEUI and some IPX* traffic.
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VMLB supports from two to eight adapter ports per team.
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You can create an VMLB team with mixed speed adapters. The load is balanced according
to the lowest common denominator of adapter capabilities and the bandwidth of the chan-
nel.
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You cannot use an Intel AMT enabled adapter in a VMLB team.
Static Link Aggregation
Static Link Aggregation (SLA) is a performance technology developed by Cisco to increase throughput
between switches. This team type works with:
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Cisco EtherChannel-capable switches with channeling mode set to 'ON'
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Intel switches capable of Link Aggregation
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Other switches capable of static 802.3ad
