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Combining physical ports to create interface groups

An interface group is created by combining two or more physical ports into a single logical port. The logical port provides increased resiliency, increased availability, and load sharing.

  • Interface group types
    Three types of interface groups are supported on the storage system: single-mode, static multimode, and dynamic multimode. Each interface groups provides different levels of fault tolerance. Multimode interface groups provide methods for load balancing network traffic.
  • Creating an interface group
    You can create an interface group—single-mode, static multimode, or dynamic multimode (LACP)—to present a single interface to clients by combining the capabilities of the aggregated network ports.
  • Adding a port to an interface group
    You can add up to 16 physical ports to an interface group for all port speeds.
  • Removing a port from an interface group
    You can remove a port from an interface group that hosts LIFs, as long as it is not the last port in the interface group. There is no requirement that the interface group must not host LIFs or that the interface group must not be the home port of a LIF considering that you are not removing the last port from the interface group. However, if you are removing the last port, then you must migrate or move the LIFs from the interface group first.
  • Deleting an interface group
    You can delete interface groups if you want to configure LIFs directly on the underlying physical ports or decide to change the interface group mode or distribution function.