Setting up NIC teaming for Windows Server 2012*/2012 R2*/2016*

NIC TEAMING is a Windows feature that enables administrators to join multiple network adapters into a single entity for performance enhancement or fault tolerance purpose.

Hyper-v VMs can also take advantage of NIC TEAMING but they are limited to TEAMS of only 2 as oppposed to the host operating system which can have teams of up to 64 NICs


The following 3 basics tasks must be completed to use NIC TEAMING in hyper-v :

• create the NIC TEAM in the Windows server 2012 R2 host oerating system. Right here are the steps
• in Hyper-V manager, create an external virtual switch using the NIC TEAM : Once you have created the NIC TEAM, you can open the virtual switch manager and create a new virtual switch by selecting the external network option and choosing "Microsoft Adapter Multiplexor Driver"  from the drop-down list
• configure the network adapter in a VM to connect to the virtual switch representing the NIC
   

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