Creating A Nic Team - Dell S5000 Deployment/Configuration Manual

Dell Networking S5000: Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE

Creating a NIC Team

Since the NICs and HBAs are seen as virtual ports, we can treat them as separate entities and create a
NIC team with the virtual CNA NIC ports. In Figure 95 and Figure 96, you can see we NIC team the two
virtual NIC ports and use 'Failsafe Team'.
In this example, we use Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise as an example. To create a NIC team on
the virtual NIC ports navigate to 'Control PanelNetwork and InternetNetwork Connections' and
right click one of the ports you wish to put in a NIC team. Click 'Properties'. Click the 'Configure'
button. Next, click the 'Team Management' tab as shown in Figure 96.
Now right click on the 'Teams' folder and click 'Create Team'. Choose the type of NIC teaming you
desire. In this example we will demonstrate with 'Failsafe Team'. Next, select the ports to add to the
NIC team. The rest of the settings we leave as default. Figure 96 displays the virtual port NIC team with
two virtual NIC ports as members.
Figure 95: NIC teaming virtual NIC ports with Failsafe Team
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