September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
Network teaming is a function of networking that ties multiple network adapters together to provide load balancing and redundancy across multiple adapters on the single server or host. Failover clustering and NLB enable redundancy across multiple servers. Network teaming is configured on a per-host basis and can be used in conjunction with failover clustering or NLB to add network redundancy to the each cluster node before the cluster is even created.
Network teaming has been supported by Microsoft in previous Windows Server versions, on failover and NLB clusters, but with Windows Server 2012, this service is now built in. Creating a network team is detailed later in this chapter.
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