NIC teaming combines multiple nework connections to increase throughput and provide redundancy should a link fail. You can associate multiple adapters to a single vSphere standard switch to provide NIC teaming. The NIC team shares network traffic and provides failover.
Procedure
1 | Browse to a host in the vSphere Web Client navigator. |
2 | Click the Manage tab, and select . |
3 | Select the standard switch you want to add an uplink to from the list. |
4 | Click Manage the physical network adapters. |
5 | Click Add adapters. |
6 | Select a network adapter from the list and select the Fail order group to assign it to from the drop-down menu. |
7 | Click OK. |
8 | (Optional) The selected adapter appears in the failover group list under the Assigned Adapters.
Use the up and down arrows to change the position of an adapter in the failover groups.
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9 | Click OK. |