Setting Up NIC Teaming For Windows Server 2012 /2012 R2 /2016 /2019
Setting Up NIC Teaming For Windows Server 2012 /2012 R2 /2016 /2019
Setting Up NIC Teaming For Windows Server 2012 /2012 R2 /2016 /2019
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3. In Adapters and Interfaces, select the network adapters that you want to add to a NIC Team.
4. Click TASKS, and then click Add to New Team.
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5. The New team dialog box opens and displays network adapters and team members. In Team name, type a name for the new
NIC Team.
6. If needed, in Additional properties, select values for Teaming mode, Load balancing mode, and Standby adapter. In most
cases, the highest-performing load balancing mode is Dynamic.
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7. If you want to configure or assign a VLAN number to the NIC Team, click the link to the right of Primary team interface. The
New team interface dialog box opens.
8. To configure VLAN membership, click Specific VLAN. Type the VLAN information in the first section of the dialog box
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9. Click OK.
PowerShell* Instruction
Note We recommend using Microsoft Teaming on operating systems 2012 and higher.
See the Microsoft TechNet article that details NIC Teaming (NetLBFO) cmdlets in Windows PowerShell*.
1. Open an elevated PowerShell prompt. In the Windows® 10 taskbar search, type PowerShell. Press the W and S keys to open
Search.
2. You should now see the result Windows PowerShell at the top. Right-click Windows PowerShell and select Run as
Administrator.
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3. If you are presented with the User Account Control prompt, click Yes.
4. Enter the command new-NetLBFOTeam [TEAMNAME] “[NIC1]”, “[NIC2]” and press the Enter Key.
[TEAMNAME] – the name you want to give to the team of network adapters
[NIC1] – the name of the first network adapter found from above
[NIC2] – the name of the second network adapter found from above
5. Open the Network Connections by going to Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections.
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