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Using VMM to manage you Hyper-V NIC teams created with BACS

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Using BACS version 11.6.10 you can create NIC teams in you Hyper-V Server to ensure Virtual Machines connectivity and manage your BASP NICs from Virtual Machine Manager. Just follow these easy steps

  1. Remove any existing External Virtual Networks connected to the NICs that are part of the team
  2. Use BACS to create your team, configure the desired team Type, add the NICs involved in the team and add the VLANs you want
  3. Refresh the Host in VMM. Now you should see your BASP Virtual Adapters in the hardware of your host like this:
    BASP adapters
  4. Once these adapters show up in your Host in VMM you can create one external Virtual Network for each Virtual BASP Network Adapter
    1. Do not configure any VLANs on these Virtual Networks since the BACS software is in charge of this
    2. When selecting the BASP Virtual Adapter, you must check in the BACS software the Name of the BASP adapter to select the correct one in VMM:
      BASP Virtual Network adapters
  5. Connect a VM to the desired Virtual Network adapter.
  6. Now your VM is connected to a VN that provides the Failover and High availability provided by BACS

Note that this is a result of some tests I did on my machines and is not ensured to work in all environments and not officially supported by VMM or Hyper-V

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Actually Broadcom 5708 and 5709 worth flawless in Link Aggregation Mode with the latest broadcom drivers on our Dell 1950 and 2950s.  I've installed BACS on our Hyper-V Server and can manage the team easily that way.  You need netframework 2.0 in order to install BACS on the server but there is a workaround for it at:  http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/powershell-on-server-core I'd also recommend making sure you've setup your switch for LAG as well but i'm running this configuration as i type this without issue. I have yet to get VLANs to work thou and trunking so if anyone has something that i might be missing let me know.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Greetings folks, NIC Teaming , also called “Load Balancing and Fail-Over” (LBFO) or “Link Aggregation”

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Dans ce bulletin, je vais aborder l’aspect de l’aggrégation de lien aussi appelée “Teaming” sur les plateformes

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    January 01, 2003
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