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NIC Teaming on two switches

jarves123
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‎04-26-2013 01:17 AM - edited ‎03-07-2019 01:03 PM

Hi,

I have a server windows 2008 that I would like to have a nic teaming configuration, the server has two nics, each nic is connected to a different switch. One is connected to cisco 2960 and the other is connected to cisco 2950. I have read here in forums about nic teaming but using the same switch. I have not found using different switch. Is this possible?

Thanks,

Janus.

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tkatsiaounis
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‎04-26-2013 01:23 AM

Yes you can team two cards on different switches. Windows takes care of load balancing in order not to send the same MAC address to both switches. There are some things to be careful about though especially which load balancing method to choose.

Check this out it has all the info you will need

http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2012/06/19/nic-teaming-in-windows-server-2012-brings-simple-affordable-traffic-reliability-and-load-balancing-to-your-cloud-workloads.aspx

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