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Figure 2 Shared network connection
Management Clients
Production Clients
Server NIC/iLO Shared Network Port
HPE Server
Hub/Switch
Management/
Production
Network
NIC teaming with Shared Network Port configurations
NIC teaming is a feature you can use to improve server NIC performance and reliability. If iLO
is configured to use the Shared Network Port, make sure you observe the following constraints:
NIC teaming constraints
Note the following when you select a teaming mode to use when iLO is configured to use the
Shared Network Port:
• iLO network communications will be blocked in the following conditions:
The selected NIC teaming mode causes the switch that iLO is connected with to ignore
traffic from the server NIC/port that iLO is configured to share.
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◦ The selected NIC teaming mode sends all traffic destined for iLO to a NIC/port other
than the one that iLO is configured to share.
• Because iLO and the server transmit and receive on the same switch port, the selected NIC
teaming mode must allow the switch to tolerate traffic with two different MAC addresses on
the same switch port. Some implementations of LACP (802.3ad) will not tolerate multiple
MAC addresses on the same link.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise NIC teaming modes
If your server is configured to use Hewlett Packard Enterprise NIC teaming, observe the following
guidelines.
For additional information, see the ProLiant Network Adapter Teaming support document.
If your server uses another implementation of NIC teaming, see “NIC teaming constraints” and
the vendor documentation for information about selecting a NIC teaming mode.
• Network Fault Tolerance (NFT)—The server transmits and receives on only one NIC (the
primary adapter). The other NICs (secondary adapters) that are part of the team do not
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