Q-Logic 8100 SERIES manual NIC Teaming, Enabling or Disabling HDS

6–Configuring NIC Functionality in the Converged Network Adapter Configuring the NIC in a Windows Environment

HDS is disabled on QLogic 8100 Series Adapters by default and can be enabled using the Windows Advanced Property Pages for the QLogic 10Gb PCI Ethernet adapter port through the Windows Device Manager. To enable or disable HDS (Figure 6-10):

1.Select HeaderDataSplit under the Property box in the Advanced tab, and set the value to Enabled (or Disabled).

2.Click OK to save the setting and enable or disable HDS.

Figure 6-10. Enabling or Disabling HDS

NIC Teaming

Teaming combines two or more interfaces and provides advantages such as increased bandwidthand load balancing.

NIC teaming modes support failover between ports and multiple adapters for high availability server requirements. Link aggregation provides increased bandwidth via throughput aggregation between two ports. Load balancing allows distribution of traffic across ports.

QLogic 8100 Series Adapters support a maximum of 16 teams per server. The maximum number of teamed adapter ports per server is 256.

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