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N-TGE-SFP-01 User Guide
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Load Balancing and Fail-Over (LBFO) Settings
Load Balancing and Fail Over (LBFO) lets an administrator configure a
‘bundle’ of adapters and associate
up to eight adapters to this bundle. LBFO should be used to increase the system reliability upon a link
failure, and to balance the workload of packet transfers.
The following LBFO types are supported:
Fault Tolerance
- provides redundancy through automatic fail-over from an active adapter to a standby
adapter in case of switch port, cable, or adapter failure.
Send Load Balancing
- provides transmit traffic load balancing and fault tolerance in the event of switch
port, cable, or adapter failure. In this mode, the transmit traffic is balanced across member adapters
based on the source and destination nodes. Note that only one adapter accepts all receive traffic.
Team attributes
Primary: Sets the designated primary adapter of the team.
Status: Shows the status of the specific adapter. Values are
Connected
,
Disconnected
,
Disabled
.
Role:
Shows the current role of the adapter in the team. Values are:
Active
and
Backup
.
Note:
The N-TGE-SFP-01 uses an IC manufactured by Mellanox.
Only Mellanox-based ConnectX Mellanox adapters can be part of the bundle.
The bundle can contain up to eight Mellanox-based ConnectX adapters.
All the adapters in the bundle must have the same RSS, MTU, Offloading options, and LBFO type.
If you attempt to add or modify an adapter with non-compatible properties, this adapter will be
removed from the bundle and an event log will be issued.
With the Primary adapter disconnected, a different adapter may takethe Active role.
