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Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up NIC Teaming


Teaming your network cards basically means installing two NICs onto the same server, plugging them both into the same network, and joining them together in a "team". This gives you NIC redundancy in case of a failure, and redundancy is always a great thing! Sounds simple, right? Well, with Windows Server 2012 R2 it finally is. This seemingly easy task has always been challenging to put into practice with previous versions of the operating system, but with 2012 R2 we can finally do it properly from a single interface and actually count on it to work as we expect it to.

Getting ready

We are going to set up a NIC team on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine. There are two NICs installed onto this server, neither of which have yet been configured.

How to do it...

With the following steps, start teaming up:

  1. Open up Server Manager and in the left pane go ahead and click on Local Server.

  2. Near the middle of the screen, you will see a section marked NIC Teaming. Go ahead and click on...