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Hyper-V Best Practices
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Hyper-V Best Practices

by Benedict Berger
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
172 pages
4h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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NIC Teaming

Before Windows Server 2012, the teaming of Network Interface Cards was a part of the NIC-driver but not of the operating system. This policy led to regular support cases with problematic implementations, and today's NIC Teaming is done on operating system level. NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012 R2 allows us to span a team over NICs from different vendors and of different bandwidths with classic Load Balancing and Failover (LBFO) capabilities. However, it's best practice to have only active interfaces with equal bandwidth active in one team. Creating a NIC Team will create a logical network object, a team NIC (tNIC), that then is connected to our created Hyper-V vSwitch.

It's possible to create additional tNICs on an existing team ...

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ISBN: 9781782176091