This article provides information NIC teaming, its advantage, choosing correct NIC Teaming policy and process to configure.
A NIC team can share the load of traffic between physical and virtual networks among some or all of its members, as well as provide passive failover in the event of a hardware failure or network outage.
To utilize NIC teaming, two or more network adapters must be uplinked to a virtual switch. The main advantages of NIC teaming are:
Observe these guidelines to choose the correct NIC Teaming policy:
Video on NIC teaming- the video shows an older host but the concept is the same:
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