In case of failure, high availability is always needed for important services to make sure that those services, that is, the applications and workloads that your business depends on, keep running. A highly available environment has various components, such as servers, often configured in a failover cluster, dual storage arrays, storage replication, and so on. Of course, all these components need to be connected together and that's why network adapters need high availability in case of failure. 75 percent of companies that use highly available solutions will use some form of solution to aggregate two or more network adapters into a single interface. This provides load balancing and high availability from a networking perspective. This solution is called many names, Load Balance and Failover (LBFO), NIC bonding, or NIC teaming. We will stick with using the Microsoft term, NIC teaming. By using NIC teaming, you can have traffic failover and load balancing within...