Restrictions, Supported operating systems, Restrictions supported operating systems – Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual

Page 746

Advertising
background image

OneCommand NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager User Manual

P009415-01A Rev. A

1. Overview

Restrictions

746

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) – Also known as dynamic link

aggregation. For more information, see “IEEE 802.3ad and LACP Team

Types” on page 749.

IEEE 802.3ad static – For more information, see “IEEE 802.3ad and LACP

Team Types” on page 749.

Hashing

Perceived Port Load

Destination IP hashing

Destination MAC hashing

Backup/Restore of teaming configurations

Dynamically reprogramming VLAN IDs allows you to change the VLAN ID of

a VLAN without recreating the VLAN with the new ID. The IP addresses

assigned to the VLAN remain intact through the change.

Change the primary adapter of a team

Optional deletion of native VLANs

Restrictions

Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) is not supported.

The Windows NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager does not support Single Root

I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV).

You cannot run LACP when multichannel (UMC) is enabled.

There are restrictions when using VLANs and UMC together. See the Emulex

Universal Multichannel Reference Guide and the Emulex Windows Driver Manual

for more information.

The NIC Teaming driver does not allow TCP Offload sessions on 802.3ad and

LACP teams.

Smart Load Balancing teams are not recommended when using clustering

software.

Supported Operating Systems

The Windows NIC Teaming and VLAN Manager supports the following Windows

Server operating systems:

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008

(All versions supported with Hyper-V, Enterprise and Core editions, on x64

platforms only).

Advertising