Network Teaming Driver on MCS server

antonyice1

guys i am looking forward for a callmanager installation on HP MCS servers.I happened to see about Network Teaming Driver on one of the cisco documentaions which explains about giving ip address to multiple lan cards of the server.could you guys explain to me what a NetworTeaming Driver is ?

mikej412

With some MCS and HP server you have the capability to configure two connections to the network so that you can still have network connectivity in case of switch failure -- as long as you plug the 2 teamed network adapters into different switches.

You'd also have your Publisher and Subscribers plugged into different switches to minimize the impact of a switch failure, so you still have some fault tolerance if you have servers that don't support adapter teaming.

If you have the capability and the switch ports available, you should probably do it.

Here's a couple previous threads that might have some more useful information
http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25044
http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26772

While the link in this quote from the first link above may be about Dell and Linux, it's still good for the background information -- and should help answer your questions.

mikearama wrote:

It's called Adapter Fault Tolerance, where each nic in the team connects to a different switch... only one nic is functional, but if either the nic or the switch goes down, the other steps in.

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps1q03_bhutani?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz