HP SERVERS NIC TEAMING IN WINDOWS

HP Servers NIC Teaming in Windows

What is Teaming?

Teaming NICs is used when you need to group several NICs and make them act as one, Teaming NICs provide fault tolerance, reduce network spikes and eliminate single point of failures from your Servers, you can team 2 NICs or more and then provide a separate IP for Team NIC, below is the image of 4 NICs in our HP server.

Before we continue you can download and install HP Network Config Utility for your OS on HP Server from the following link 

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3884319&prodNameId=3884320&swEnvOID=4064&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-32efdf5d63764165932fbccf02

1. Open HP Network Config. Utlity
2. You can see from the image that only 2 NICs are connected. Select the      

    connected NICs and click on Team.

3. Teaming has been successful

4. Now click on Team NIC and click properties if you want to define what you 

    want to Team Type Selection and Transmit Loadbalancing.

5. Set Team Type Selection to Automatic, as HP NIC teaming is very 

    intelligent and understands the packet transmission.

6. Select Transmit Load Balancing Method

7. Set IP for NIC1 (10.10.0.110) & IP for NIC2 (10.10.0.111), we need to 
   configure the IP for the Team NIC, so we are going to assign IP for the 
   Team NIC as following 10.10.0.112.

There you go, we are done with the teaming configuration of HP Server, make sure you point users to Team NIC’s IP, the Team IP will then balance the load between the two NICs.