NIC teaming are now bundle with Microsoft Windows Server 8. With this exciting bundle, IT engineer will no longer suffer in configuring teaming software which proprietary to hardware vendors most occasions. AND this also means the NIC teaming of Windows Server 8 is applicable to NIC of diferrent manufacturers.
Jut got a little time to test out how does this work. Thanks to
Noel i got my chance to get my hands on the a pair of CISCO UCS C series, and these server are as shown below
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| Figure 1: CISCO UCS C-Series Rackmount |
My setup was having 2 x NIC of the server connects to my home router, a very common Belkin ADSL router. And here goes the configuration steps :-
1. Click Start and select Server Manager.
2. Click Disable at the NIC Teaming.
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| Figure 2: NIC Teaming at Server Manager pane |
3. Click
OK at
Manager Servers window.
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| Figure 3: Managed Servers |
4. Select
HV2 (or the server you are about to configure) and notice that there are 2 x NIC present.
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| Figure 4: NIC Teaming window |
5. The diagram below shows my NICs speed. 100Mbps... =(
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| Figure 5: NIC Speed |
6. Click
Tasks and select
New Team.
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| Figure 6: Teams pane |
7. Type in prefer
Team Name and
Team Interface Name. Select the NICs you want to team.
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| Figure 7: Add Team |
8. Select Advanced on the left pane and select
Switch Independent for
Teaming Mode and
Address Hash for
Load Distribution Mode. Click
Apply.
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| Figure 8: Add Team (advanced) |
9. New teamed NIC created.
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| Figure 9: NIC Teaming |
10. Check the created NIC.
