Windows Teaming Driver Available for M81KR / P81E VIC

[Robert Burns]

Greetings All,

A teaming driver for Windows has been released for the M81KR/P81E VIC (aka Palo) adaptor.

The driver is included in the ISO bundle for Windows Utilities

• The driver will be supported on UCS 2.0 for B-series can be found here http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/release.html?mdfid=283853163&flowid=25821&softwareid=283850975&os=Windows&release=2.0(1b)&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest
• Please refer to HCL at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html

           for details)

• Testing on C-series has also been completed and we expect to update the C-series (C-series release UCS 1.4) HCL and ISO shortly
• User guide is available at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/vic_drivers/install/Windows/2.0/b_Cisco_VIC_Drivers_for_Windows_Installation_Guide.html

The teaming driver will be supported on Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2.  Hyper-V will not be supported at this time.

Supported teaming modes:

     • Active-Backup (with or without failback)

     • Active-Active (transmit load balancing)

     • 802.3ad LACP

Supported load balancing methods:

     • TCP connection

     • Source and destination MAC address

     • MAC address and IP address

Supported hashing options for load balancing:

     • XOR hash

     • CRC hash

Regards,

Robert

[Marcel du Preez]

Hi...

I just downloaded the 2.1 version of the UCS software... there isn't a NICTeaming folder in W2K8, W2K8R2 or W2K12 (I'm installing on Server 2012 Datacentre). Is it still advisable to use the CIsco drivers, or, should I use the Powershell cmdlet New-NetLBFOTeam to create teams? If I should use the Cisco drivers for teaming, where do I find them on the ISO?

[Robert Burns]

For Windows 2008 they are in the B-Series 2.1 utilities ISO:

http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/release.html?mdfid=283853163&flowid=25821&softwareid=283850975&os=Windows&release=2.1%281%29&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest

For Windows 2012, they're included with the OS.  Follow the configuration commands from the guide here. (Though the guide is for 2008, it applies to 2012):

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/vic_drivers/install/Windows/2.0/b_Cisco_VIC_Drivers_for_Windows_Installation_Guide_chapter_010.html#task_4C6A112642254773B9B16931C237F4A4

Regards,

Robert

[Marcel du Preez]

Hi Robert

Thanks for the quick reply...

In the guide, step 6 says :

Step 6

Browse to the drivers directory and click OK.

Where are those drivers?

If I try running enictool to create a team, I get this error message :

"Cisco NIC Teaming protocol driver not installed. Unable to create team."

If I go to Network & Sharing, go to the properties of an adapter, click Install, select Protocol, it still asks me for a driver.

[Marcel du Preez]

I also can't run the enictool -p command, because it expects an parameter for the driver location.