Users Guide

Refer to the network adapter or operating system documentation for detailed NIC teaming instructions.

The available NIC teaming options are:

● No Teaming—NICs are not bonded and provide no load balancing or redundancy.

● LACP—Also referred to as Switch Dependent, 802.3ad or Dynamic Link Aggregation. The LACP teaming method uses

the LACP protocol to understand the teaming topology. It provides Active-Active teaming with load balancing and

redundancy. With this option, only the native VLAN is programmed on non-LAG interfaces. All tagged VLANS wait until

the LACP LAG is enabled on the NICs. The following restrictions are applicable to LACP teaming:

○ The IDRAC shared LOM feature can only be used if “Failover” option on IDRAC is enabled.

○ If the host operating system is Windows, the LACP timer must be set to “slow” (also referred to as “normal”).

● Other—Refers to a NIC teaming method where the switch is unaware of the teaming technology that is used. The

"other" option involves using the operating system and NIC device drivers on the server to team the NICs. Each NIC

vendor may provide slightly different implementations with different pros and cons.

4. Select or clear the Propagate VLAN Settings. Selecting this option will propagate any changes to VLAN settings to sleds

which were previously targeted by this template.

Cloning templates

To create a copy of a template:

On the Deploy page, select the template of which you want to create a copy, and click Clone.

Exporting templates

You can export the templates to a network share or a local drive on your system.

To export a template:

On the Deploy page, select the template that you want to export and click Export.

A message is displayed to confirm the export action. The template is exported in .xml format to a local drive on your system or

a network share.

Deleting templates

To delete templates:

1. On the Deploy page, select the template that you want to delete and click Delete.

A message is displayed prompting you to confirm the deletion.

2. Click Yes to proceed.

When a template is deleted, the unassigned identity pools in the template are restored to the identity pool.

Managing templates