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Note: Adding a network adapter to a team where its driver is disabled may
negatively affect the offloading capabilities of the team. This may have an impact on
the team's performance. Therefore, it is recommended that only driver-enabled
network adapters be added as members to a team.
8. Type the value for Team MTU.
9. Click Create to save the team information.
10. Repeat steps 4. through 9. to define additional teams. As teams are defined, they can
be selected from the team list, but they have not yet been created. Click the Preview
tab to view the team structure before applying the changes.
11. Click Apply/Exit to create all the teams you have defined and exit the Manage
Teams window.
12. Click Yes when the message is displayed indicating that the network connection will
be temporarily interrupted.
NOTES:
The team name cannot exceed 39 characters, cannot begin with spaces, and
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cannot contain any of the following characters: & \ / : * ? < > |
Team names must be unique. If you attempt to use a team name more than
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once, an error message is displayed indicating that the name already exists.
The maximum number of team members is 8.
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When team configuration has been correctly performed, a virtual team
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adapter driver is created for each configured team.
If you disable a virtual team and later want to reenable it, you must first
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disable and reenable all team members before you reenable the virtual team.
When you create Generic Trunking and Link Aggregation teams, you cannot
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designate a standby member. Standby members work only with Smart Load
Balancing and Failover and SLB (Auto-Fallback Disable) types of teams.
For an SLB (Auto-Fallback Disable) team, to restore traffic to the load balance
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members from the standby member, click the Fallback button on the Team
Properties tab.
When configuring an SLB team, although connecting team members to a hub
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is supported for testing, it is recommended to connect team members to a
switch.
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