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Express5800 Series

Windows Server® 2019


NIC Teaming (LBFO) Setup Guide

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The information in this document is subject to change at any time.
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Introduction
This document provides for setup information of Windows Server 2019 NIC Teaming on Express5800
Series servers.

Latest editions

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Substitute as appropriate when content has been modified.
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Setup of Windows Server 2019 NIC Teaming (LBFO)
Set up the network adapter teaming feature as shown below.

 Launching the NIC teaming setup tool

1. Launch Server Manager.


2. Select Local Server.
3. In the Properties window, click Enable or Disable for NIC teaming.
The NIC teaming setup tool will launch.

NOTE：The NIC teaming setup tool can also be launched by opening the Run
dialog box, typing <lbfoadmin /server .>, and then pressing the <Enter> key.

 Creating a team

Create a team by using the NIC teaming setup tool.

1. In the Servers section, select the name of the server to set up.
If there is only one server connected, the name of the server is selected automatically.
2. In the Teams section, under Tasks, select New Team. The New Team wizard then starts.
3. Type the name of the team to create, and then select the network adapter to include in the team
from the Member adapters list.
4. Click Additional properties.
5. Specify the required settings, and then click OK.
Teaming mode
Static Teaming Configures static aggregation between the NIC and switches.

Switch Configures teaming on the NIC side without depending on the switch
Independent settings.

LACP Configures dynamic aggregation between the NIC and switches.

Load balancing mode


Address Hash Distributes the load based on IP addresses and port numbers.

Distributes the load to each of the virtual switch ports used by the virtual
Hyper-V Port
machines.
 Distributes the load based on IP addresses and port numbers in sending.
Dynamic
 Distributes the load same to "Hyper-V Port" in receiving.

Standby adapter
Select one adapter to be set to standby mode from the adapters in the team.
Setting all adapters to active mode is also possible.
Primary team interface
Any VLAN ID can be specified for the primary team interface.

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 Removing a team

Remove a team by using the NIC teaming setup tool.

1. In the Servers section, select the name of the server to set up.
If there is only one server connected, the name of the server is selected automatically.
2. In the Teams section, select the team to remove.
3. In the Teams section, under Tasks, select Delete.
4. The message box to confirm appears, then click Delete team.

 Notes and restrictions

 NIC teaming on a guest OS is not supported.


 Teaming of Virtual NICs on the host OS is not supported in the Hyper-V environment.
 When STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) is enabled on network switch ports to which network adapters of
the team are connected, network communications may be disrupted. Disable STP, or configure
"PortFast" or "EdgePort" to the ports.
* About setting the network switch of the connection destination, see the manual of the network switch.
 All NICs in a team must connect to the same subnet through a network switch.
 Teaming of different speed NICs is not supported.
 Teaming of different vendor's NICs is not supported.
 When teaming is configured in a Network Load Balancing(NLB) environment, you should select
multicast mode on the NLB cluster.
 When a team is removed, the following error message may be logged in the system event log. You can
safely ignore this error message.

Level Error

Source Microsoft-Windows-NDIS

Event ID 10317

Task Category PnP

Description Miniport Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor Driver,


{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}, had event Network Interface deleted
while PNP Device still exists. Note that this event is provided for informational
purpose and might not be an error always (Eg: In case of vSwitch which was
recently un-installed or a LBFO team was removed)

 In a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment, heartbeat interruption or failover may occur if you
configure Active-Standby teaming. To avoid this, you should configure multiple NICs in Active Mode in
a team so that all the NICs do not fail simultaneously.

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 In a Hyper-V environment, the following warning message may appear when a teaming adapter is
bound to a virtual switch.
There is no problem for the operation unless this message is output multiple times at one time.

Level Warning

Source Microsoft-Windows-MsLbfoSysEvtProvider

Event ID 16945

Description MAC conflict: A port on the virtual switch has the same MAC as one of the
underlying team members on Team Nic Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor
Driver

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Document Revision History
Date Revision No. Notes
Feb 28, 2019 1 The first edition

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