Auto Port Aggregation

[toni osta]

Hi ,
Auto Port Aggregation could act as a software load balancer between the ports that are configured for APA in the same server ,

could it also be used as a load balancer between 2 HP UX servers , ?

[Ivan Krastev · Accepted solution]

Nope,
aggregation is only at server level.

See more here - http://www.hp.com/products1/serverconnectivity/adapters/apa_prodbrief.html

regards,
ivan

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

You can also ref. this link
http://www.hp.com/products1/serverconnectivity/adapters/apa_infolib.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Suraj

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

APA can be configured within server only. It can be configured in two ways. Active and passive.

Passive is like lan monitor. Primary will be active at any point of time and the alternate interface will keep monitor the primary. if primary goes down, alternative will continue to provide the service.

Active is for load balancing and high throughput. All the interface in that group will be active to provide high bandwith and load balancing.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[Tim Nelson]

Products like F5's Big IP used with clustered hosts and applications are what you probably need to do something like you are talking about.