Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters User Manual

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Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 4: Broadcom NetXtreme II® Network Adapter User Guide

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NOTE: The Create Team tab appears only if there are teamable adapters available.

4. Click the Team Name field to enter a team name.
5. Click the Team Type field to select a team type.
6. Click Hyper-V Mode if you want to enable Windows virtualization services. See "Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V" in the

"Troubleshooting" topic in the NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide for more information about this feature.

7. Assign any available adapter or adapters to the team by moving the adapter from the Available Adapters list to the Load

Balance Members list. There must be at least one adapter in the Load Balance Members list.

8. You can assign any other available adapter to be a standby member by selecting it from the Standby Member list.

NOTE: There must be at least one Broadcom network adapter assigned to the team.

NOTE: A team created with a single adapter will not have load balancing or failover capabilities.

The TCP Offload Engine (TOE), Large Send Offload (LSO), and Checksum Offload (CO) columns indicate if the TOE, LSO,
and/or the CO properties are supported for the adapter. The TOE, LSO, and CO properties are enabled for a team only
when all of the members support and are configured for the feature. If this is the case, then the team offload capabilities
appear on the bottom of the screen.

NOTES:

If an adapter is included as a member of a team and you change any advanced property, then you must rebuild the
team to ensure that the team's advanced properties are properly set.
If an adapter with a TOE key is included as a member of a team and you remove the TOE key, then you must rebuild
the team to ensure that the team does not appear as a TOE-enabled team.
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.

9. Type the value for Team MTU.

10. Click Create to save the team information.
11. Repeat steps

4.

through

10.

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.

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