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Help with NIC teaming on server

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by tim.mcgovern

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Hi,
I'm trying to understand how NIC teaming can be setup on our HP DL380 server. ( the server has two NICs).
We are currently only utilising one NIC. I want to setup teaming for load balancing.

Do both cards need individual IP addresses before a team can be created ?
Or can the IP from existing NIC be used to setup the teaming and assign that IP to the virtual NIC that is create for the team ?

Appreciate any info.
regards

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by tim.mcgovern

thanks,
but the doc talks about saving a NIC teaming configuration.
I don't have NIC teaming setup yet.

I'm tring to figure out if I need an IP for the second NIC on the server before I setup a team ?

Or Do I use the servers existing IP and assign it to the Virtual NIC which will be setup for teaming ?

The current IP is assinged to the first NIC on the server.

Thanks

by oharaphil

For what i've had to deal with in the past i think you are better of setting the network cards up as dhcp FIRST . Then once this is done you can team the two cards together and assign one ip address .

by jon-paul_fegan

Hi, I'm working to set this up as well, and all the papers i can find seem to assume everything is set up already. I'm trying to find information on the static IP issue as well. Do I need a static ip for both nics and the virtual nic? or just for the virtual nic. The HP docs linked to here aren't much help.

by naxnxtzoyzjv

Hi,
I'm tyring to figure out NIC teaming too on HP servers. I've read through the links posts from HP but still don't konw if both NICs need IP's before a team is setup or just need one IP that is used by the virtual NIC.
Most confusing ??? Can anyone explain this point only instead of posting link.
Would appreciate it a lot.
Thanks

by hueta

For all those trying to figure out NIC teaming and how many IP's required. Here's how its done.

For NIC teaming you do not need two IPs for the two individual NICs.

Just need One IP for one of the NICs (usually the first one).
Then when you enable teaming the NIC driver will use the IP address of the first NIC and bind it to both the NIC's. That same IP address will then be used as a Virtual IP address that gets used by both the NICs to provide load balancing or fault tolerance etc.

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