PowerShell example: blogs.technet.com/.../windows-server-8-beta-nic-teaming.aspx
With PowerShell, you don't need the extra step of enabling the feature in the Server Manager UI either.
Marco Shaw
3 Jun 2012 2:18 PM
Leigh
13 Jun 2012 10:55 AM
hi
this is pretty cool, dont suppose you have the command line instructions?
Leigh
13 Jun 2012 1:09 PM
Yay! Thanks!! :) ... thanks for the quick reply as well :D!!!
Thumbs up!
Hank
7 Aug 2012 8:15 PM
I did this, with 4 NIC's. Tryed every method of teaming (Swirtch independent/static and LACP). When i transftering "random files" thru SMB i get full speed (350-380MB/s). But everything thats involve hyper-v (replication/moving mv) only get max 1GBit/s (115MB/s). Do you know if its by design?
(its the same, whatever mothod i use)
Andrew
6 Nov 2012 9:27 PM
Hank - did you ever figure that out or get an answer?
Steve
29 Nov 2012 1:02 PM
Is the storage on both sides fast enough to go over 115MB/s?
topokin
22 Mar 2013 10:43 PM
I have Windows Server 2012 Full installation on HP DL 360p G8. Teaming is configured with 2 nic through the "Server Manager" console, however I observed that the MAC-Address of the "Teamed-NIC" often alternates itself between MAC-Address of both physical NICs.
Is this a normal behaviour or there is something still missing. The teaming is configured in LACP mode.
Since this system is to serve as a License-Server and some licenses configuration are MAC-Address dependency, how can I overcome this random chages.
Thanks
2 Apr 2013 5:59 AM
Hi, I have set up file server on hyper-v machine and teamed the card but the fastest speed I can get is 1Gb, is there something I am doing wrong?
Leigh
17 May 2013 3:27 AM
No you not doing anything wrong thats just the way it works. If you were to draw data from the team to 2 different locations (2 different NICs) then you might see the NIC team output up to 2Gbps.
Or you could try this:
Create 2 Virtual Switch each on its own physical NIC then team them within the Guest. ??
Brian
18 Jun 2013 5:58 PM
Hank, a little late but disable Virtual Machine Queuing on the adapters as well as the teamed adapter.
Brian
18 Jun 2013 7:00 PM
Brian - can you expound?
When creating link aggregations for teamed NIC's for live migration, whether static or LACP, I to can only get 1Gbit throughput. Everything I have read states this is by design, as a single MAC to a single MAC can only ever use 1 connection in a data stream. If there are multiple connections to other devices, the link aggregation will use other links, and will allow an aggregate bandwidth of the total connections in the link aggregation, but no single connection can exceed 1 gig.
DeaPea
11 Jul 2013 3:41 PM
I have the exact same problem... did anyone solve this?
topokin
22 Mar 2013 2:43 PM
I have Windows Server 2012 Full installation on HP DL 360p G8. Teaming is configured with 2 nic through the "Server Manager" console, however I observed that the MAC-Address of the "Teamed-NIC" often alternates itself between MAC-Address of both physical NICs.
Is this a normal behaviour or there is something still missing. The teaming is configured in LACP mode.
Since this system is to serve as a License-Server and some licenses configuration are MAC-Address dependency, how can I overcome this random chages.
Thanks
Corey
8 Aug 2013 6:13 AM
Do the physical NICs have to be from the same vendor? I know this was an issue in earlier versions because the OS didn't handle teaming
8 Aug 2013 3:53 PM
@Corey - Any Ethernet NIC that has passed the Windows Hardware Qualification and Logo test (WHQL tests) may be used in a Windows Server 2012 team. You can team NIC's from multiple vendors.
Brian
28 Aug 2013 6:23 PM
I have a 2 Host setup, both with a Host NIC team and a VM Team, 2 nics for each and i dont ever see over 115mb transfer from Host to Host or Host to Guest and vice-versa. I have 2 quad port Broadcom cards in each host, and my NIC teams are spread across each Physical Adapter, could this be the reason i dont see double the speeds.