NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 includes an integrated NIC Teaming solution that is easy to setup and manage, is vendor independent, and that supports the performance optimizations provided by the underlying NICs.
NIC Teaming is easily managed through PowerShell or a powerful, intuitive UI (the UI is layered on top of PowerShell). Teams can be created, configured, monitored, and deleted at the click of a mouse. Multiple servers can be managed at the same time from the same UI. Through the power of PowerShell remote management the NIC Teaming UI can be run on Windows 8 clients to remotely manage servers even when those servers are running Windows 2012 Server Core!
A team can include NICs from any vendor – and it can even include NICs from multiple vendors. This vendor-agnostic approach brings a common management model to even the most heterogeneous datacenter. New NICs can be added to systems as needed and effortlessly integrated to the existing NIC Teaming configuration.
Finally, the team supports all the networking features that the underlying NICs support, so you don’t lose important performance functionality implemented by the NIC hardware. The “no compromise” approach means that NIC Teaming can be deployed with confidence on all servers.
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