Server 2012 R2 Nic teaming & hyper_v Switch

server 2012 r2 datacenter

2 motherboard intel gigabit nics

i have teamed 2 nics , throughput improved. want move server hyper-v , understand team , hyper-v switch don't work together.

if add nic hardware, hyper-v switch adapter , still continue keep team?

john lenz

i'm not sure gave impression nic teaming cannot used hyper-v switch. support using them together. there rules using them though.

i'll summarize rules here, read comprehensive nic teaming deployment guide. i've included citations guide in [brackets].

in hyper-v root partition:
- the vswitch must put over the team [guide chapter 3.6]. (this makes sense: if tried other way, you'd have 2 vswitches. guest vms wouldn't advantages of teaming, since guests attached switch sits below teaming feature.)
- if use vlans, should configure vlans once: @ top of stack. means in hyper-v, if there's vswitch on stack. if there's no vswitch, configure vlans in nic teaming. (and if there's no nic teaming, configure vlans in nic itself.) [guide chapter 3.13.1.1]
in hyper-v guest partition:
- it's useless team nics same switch. don't bother. (this makes sense: teaming gives 2 advantages, bandwidth aggregation , fault tolerance. single adapter in guest gets maximum possible bandwidth available vswitch, , there's no "hardware" have fault.)
- the best use of teaming in guest make sr-iov more fault-tolerant. [guide chapter 4.5]
- you need enable option in hyper-v host make teaming work correctly. [guide chapter 4.5]

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