Configuring and Managing Ethernet PCIe Adapters
On ztC Endurance systems, you configure and manage Ethernet PCIe adapters with Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO) technology, using the Stratus LBFO teaming script and Windows Server NIC Teaming utility to perform the following tasks:
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Configure Ethernet PCIe adapters into teams.
For planning information, see Teaming Utilities, Types of Fault-Tolerant Teams, and Fault-Tolerant Ethernet Teams and IP Multicasting, if applicable.
To configure Ethernet teams, see Configuring Ethernet Teams.
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If needed, assign virtual LANs to a team. For planning information, see Virtual LANs. For information about how to configure the VLANs, see IV Configuring Virtual LANs (VLANs) Over a Team.
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Manage a team by setting a persistent MAC address for the team, removing or adding adapters, or deleting the team. See Managing Ethernet Teams.
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Troubleshoot a team or individual adapters. See Troubleshooting Ethernet Teams and Ethernet PCIe Adapters.
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You can physically remove one of two partnered I/O modules without disrupting the network only if the active Ethernet PCIe adapters in both of the modules are teamed with each other. With teams configured for load balancing, your system will experience a drop in throughput while the module is absent.
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For fault tolerance, configure your Ethernet PCIe adapters into teams. Although ztC Endurance systems support unteamed Ethernet PCIe adapters, an unteamed adapter is a single point of failure that can cause the loss of a network connection.
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