The Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) allows you to group host physical adapters and the ports on a physical switch to form a bigger communication pipeline, thereby increasing availability and bandwidth. Such a pipeline is referred to as Ether Channel. The following diagram illustrates the LAG Configuration Workflow:
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The physical network adapters and physical switch port groups are called LAG.