{"id":1317,"date":"2017-10-25T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.sealionshipping.co.uk\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:24:33","slug":"windows-server-2012-nic-teaming-and-netgear-prosafe-switches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/windows-server-2012-nic-teaming-and-netgear-prosafe-switches\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming and Netgear Prosafe switches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI\u2019m used to working with medium-sized datacenters where walls are filled with server blades and SANs and stuff I do not understand. My new job \u2013 not so much. On my first visit to the \u201cserver room\u201d I found a pair of HP ML 350 G3 (!) servers gathering dust in a corner.<\/p>\n<p>In order to support a more advanced CI process and virtualize the few production systems we have, I invested in a HP DL 380G8 server and new switches all around. We\u2019re now on gigabit links all the way out to each workstation, and floors are connected to each other with a 2Gb link. For switches, I bought 3 Netgear GSM7224V2 switches. For our use, these work wonders at a fraction of the price of Cisco units.<\/p>\n<p>Using Windows Server 2012 on the new HP server, we\u2019re using all 4 NICs on the server in a so-called \u201cconverged fabric\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what I was gonna tell you anyway in this post, is that Windows Server NIC teaming in LACP mode works nicely with Netgear LAGs (Link Aggregation Groups). Simply define a LAG on the NetGear switch and add the switchports connected to your converged fabric. On the Windows Server, define a NIC Team using LACP\/Address Hash, and witness a nice increase in network speed:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/hindenes.com\/trondsworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-13-11_02_00-TP-HV01-Remote-Desktop-Connection-Manager-v2.2-268x300.png\" alt=\"2013-04-13 11_02_00-TP-HV01 - Remote Desktop Connection Manager v2.2\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/hindenes.com\/trondsworking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-13-11_04_33-TP-HV01-Remote-Desktop-Connection-Manager-v2.2-300x189.png\" alt=\"2013-04-13 11_04_33-TP-HV01 - Remote Desktop Connection Manager v2.2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BTW; Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/keithmayer\/archive\/2012\/10\/16\/nic-teaming-in-windows-server-2012-do-i-need-to-configure-my-switch.aspx#.UWkatWY4V9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this blog post\u00a0<\/a>for more details on nic teaming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m used to working with medium-sized datacenters where walls are filled with server blades and SANs and stuff I do not understand. My new job \u2013 not so much. On my first visit to the \u201cserver room\u201d I found a pair of HP ML 350 G3 (!) servers gathering dust in a corner. In order to support a more advanced CI process and virtualize the few production systems we have, I invested in a HP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,61],"tags":[201,203,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardiner.tech\/bluebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}