What is NIC Teaming?
A solution commonly employed to solve the network availability and performance challenges is NIC Teaming.
NIC Teaming, also known as load balancing and failover (LBFO), allows multiple network adapters on a computer to be placed into a team for the following purposes
Bandwidth aggregation
Traffic failover to prevent connectivity loss in the event of a network component failure.
NIC Teaming in Windows Server 201
Windows Server 2012 includes an integrated NIC Teaming solution that is easy to setup and manage,
that supports the performance optimizations provided by the underlying NICs.
A team can include NICs from any vendor-and it can even include NICs from multiple vendors. New NICs cab be added to systems as needed and effortlessly integrated to the existing NIC teaming configuration.
A solution commonly employed to solve the network availability and performance challenges is NIC Teaming.
NIC Teaming, also known as load balancing and failover (LBFO), allows multiple network adapters on a computer to be placed into a team for the following purposes
Bandwidth aggregation
Traffic failover to prevent connectivity loss in the event of a network component failure.
NIC Teaming in Windows Server 201
Windows Server 2012 includes an integrated NIC Teaming solution that is easy to setup and manage,
that supports the performance optimizations provided by the underlying NICs.
A team can include NICs from any vendor-and it can even include NICs from multiple vendors. New NICs cab be added to systems as needed and effortlessly integrated to the existing NIC teaming configuration.
NIC Teaming Configuration Options
