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

A port channel interface provides many benefits, including easy management, link redundancy, and sharing.

Port channels are transparent to network configurations and can be modified and managed as one interface. For example, you configure one IP address for the group and that IP address is used for all routed traffic on the port channel.

With this feature, you can create larger-capacity interfaces by utilizing a group of lower-speed links. For example, you can build a 40-Gigabit interface by aggregating four 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces together. If one of the five interfaces fails, traffic is redistributed across the three remaining interfaces.