Category: NIC Teaming

• Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming with EtherChannel on Cisco 3750G Switch.

  Windows Server 2012 R2 built in NIC Teaming code enables link aggregation of multiple network adapters with same speeds for outbound traffic from the host. To take advantage of inbound traffic aggregation, the switch ports will have to be configured for Etherchannel. In the example below, an already configured SwitchIndependent NIC team is converted to…

  jbernec

  August 11, 2014

  Cisco, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Network, Network Load Balancing, NIC Teaming, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2012 R2

• 23 Best Practices to improve Hyper-V and VM Performance

  Best practices are the most obvious starting point for improving your Hyper-V and Virtual Machine performance and I’ve listed 23 of them for you below. 1. Avoid overloading Hyper-V Server You must not overload Hyper-V Server. In other words, there is no need to host virtual machines which have no functions or I would say…

  jbernec

  July 11, 2014

  Generation 2 Virtual Machines, Hyper-v, Hyper-v 2012 R2, Hyper-v Manager, Microsoft Hyper-v, NIC Teaming, Virtual Machines, Windows Server 2012 R2

• Configuring NIC Teaming on Windows Server 2012 R2 using PowerShell.

  I want to quickly write about creating NIC teams on Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster hosts for virtual machine access to the public network. There are a number of parameters to consider when creating a NIC team on this platform, but the two primary parameters for me are : 1) Teaming Mode: I selected the…

  jbernec

  February 25, 2014

  Hyper-v 2012 R2, Network Load Balancing, NIC Teaming, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2012 R2

  LoadBalancing, NIC Team, PowerShell, Powershell 3.0, Teaming Mode