17–QLogic Teaming Services
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Teaming Concepts
The concept of grouping multiple physical devices to provide fault tolerance and
load balancing is not new. It has been around for years. Storage devices use
RAID technology to group individual hard drives. Switch ports can be grouped
together using technologies such as Cisco Gigabit EtherChannel, IEEE 802.3ad
Link Aggregation, Bay Network Multilink Trunking, and Extreme Network Load
Sharing. Network interfaces on servers can be grouped together into a team of
physical ports called a virtual adapter.
PXE
Preboot Execution Environment
RAID
redundant array of inexpensive disks
Smart Load Balanc-
ing™ and Failover
Switch-independent failover type of team in which the primary
team member handles all incoming and outgoing traffic while
the standby team member is idle until a failover event (for
example, loss of link occurs). The intermediate driver (ASP)
manages incoming/outgoing traffic.
Smart Load Balanc-
ing (SLB)
Switch-independent load balancing and failover type of team, in
which the intermediate driver manages outgoing/incoming traf-
fic.
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
WINS
Windows name service
WLBS
Windows Load Balancing Service
Table 17-1. Glossary (Continued)
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