HP ProLiant Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack Windows Edition - Manual (Page 4)

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HP ProLiant Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack
Introduction
The HP ProLiant Essentials Intelligent Networking Pack-Windows Edition is part of the ProLiant Essentials
software family and is integrated with HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM), SmartStart, and HP
Management agents.
The Intelligent Networking Pack (INP) provides advanced capabilities that allow servers to proactively
adapt to networking infrastructure problems thus improving server availability and network performance.
The Intelligent Networking Pack Windows Edition includes:
• Virus Throttle—a network packet-filtering feature that helps slow down the spread of viruses on your
system. Virus Throttle monitors all outbound connection requests and counts the number of unique
connections. It detects abnormal ("virus-like") behavior in the requests, and slows down excessive
connection requests to new hosts until you can determine if they are viral in nature and take action
• Advanced redundancy and teaming capabilities, including:
o Active Path Failover—an advanced redundancy feature that allows a ProLiant server to detect
blocked paths and to redirect data along an unblocked path to the core network.
o Fast Path Failover—an advanced redundancy feature that allows a ProLiant server to use the
quickest path to the core network (or the root bridge).
o Router Path Failover—an advanced redundancy feature that allows a ProLiant server to detect a
blocked path to a router and to redirect packets along an unblocked path to a router.
o Dual Channel Load Balancing—a special type of teaming that allows the creation of two teams,
called groups, inside of a single team. Each group is assigned one or more teamed ports and
can be connected to a different switch to provide switch fault tolerance. Full inbound and
outbound load balancing is provided across both groups. Should any group completely fail,
caused by a failure of all teamed ports in the group or by a failure of the group's switch, the
team remains available through the other group. Two types of Dual Channel Load Balancing
teams can be configured: Switch-assisted Dual Channel Load Balancing teams and 802.3ad
Dynamic Dual Channel Load Balancing teams.
o Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance—a special type of teaming that allows the creation of two
teams, called groups, inside of a single team. All team members within each group are
dynamically placed into a port-trunk/channel by dynamic Link Aggregation Control Protocol
(LACP) agreement with the switch. A failure of a team member to synchronize joining a port-trunk
or channel with the switch is treated as an error and that team member is considered failed.
Dynamic Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance (NFT) provides the safety of additional backup
links between the server and hub/switch. Dynamic Dual Channel NFT is implemented with one
channel team providing a primary adapter and another channel team providing a secondary,