Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module Configuration Guide 9.10(0.0)

• Static — Port channels that are statically configured.
• Dynamic — Port channels that are dynamically configured using the link aggregation control protocol (LACP). For details, refer to Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) .

There are 128 port-channels with 16 members per channel.

As soon as you configure a port channel, the system treats it like a physical interface. For example, IEEE 802.1Q tagging is maintained while the physical interface is in the port channel.

Member ports of a LAG are added and programmed into the hardware in a predictable order based on the port ID, instead of in the order in which the ports come up. With this implementation, load balancing yields predictable results across line card resets and chassis reloads.

A physical interface can belong to only one port channel at a time.

Each port channel must contain interfaces of the same interface type/speed.

Port channels can contain a mix of 100, 1000, or 10000 Mbps Ethernet interfaces and TenGigabit Ethernet interfaces. The interface speed (100, 1000, or 10000 Mbps) the port channel uses is determined by the first port channel member that is physically up. The system disables the interfaces that do match the interface speed that the first channel member sets. That first interface may be the first interface that is physically brought up or was physically operating when interfaces were added to the port channel. For example, if the first operational interface in the port channel is a Gigabit Ethernet interface, all interfaces at 1000 Mbps are kept up, and all 100/1000/10000 interfaces that are not set to 1000 speed or auto negotiate are disabled.