Cisco ISE 3395 NIC Teaming/Redundancy

[pmarengo2]

    Is it possible to set up NIC teaming on a 3395, I see that it is available on the SNS 3400 series? However, I have been unable to locate any information regarding NIC teaming for redundancy purposes on the 3395's. Is this feature supported, and if so, how would I go about enabling it correctly? Thank you for the assistance in advance.

[nspasov · Accepted solution]

Hi there. At the moment, ISE does not support NIC teaming/channeling of any sort. This has been requested several times so hopefully Cisco will implement it in a future version. 

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[pmarengo2]

Hi Neno, thank you for the response, we also requested it when we first stood up ISE. Hopefully, at some point in the near future this feature is added.

[Charlie Moreton · Accepted solution]

As of now, the only way this can be done is on a VMWare deployment.  In the configuration of the VMWare Host, you can create a connection using two NICs and that connection would present itself to the clients as a single connection.

Just so the ISE sees it as a single connection, you're set.  Ideal?  Maybe not, but it is a pretty nice workaround.

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