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Solarflare Server Adapter
User Guide
4.13 Using SAM to Configure Teams and VLANs
• Reconfiguring a Team...Page 147
• Adding Adapters to a Team...Page 149
• Setting up Virtual LANs (VLANs)...Page 151
About Teaming
Solarflare adapters support the following teaming configurations:
• IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation
• Static link aggregation
• Fault tolerant teams
Teaming allows the user to configure teams consisting of all Solarflare adapter ports on all installed
Solarflare adapters or might consist of only selected adapter ports e.g. from a dual port Solarflare
adapter, the first port could be a member of team A and the second port a member of team B or
both ports members of the same team.
This section is only relevant to teams of Solarflare adapters. Solarflare adapters can be used in multi-
vendor teams when teamed using the other vendor’s teaming driver.
NOTE:
To set up teams and VLANS in Windows using the sfteam command line tool, see
Adapter Teaming and VLAN Tool...Page 193
NOTE:
Adapter teaming and VLANs are not supported in Windows for iSCSI remote boot enabled
Solarflare adapters. To configure load balancing and failover support on iSCSI remote boot enabled
adapters, use Microsoft MultiPath I/O (MPIO), which is supported on all Solarflare adapters.
CAUTION
Windows 2012 introduced native support for teaming. Windows teaming and Solarflare team-
ing configuration should not be mixed in the same server.