Can someone explain why one would want more than 1 network card? In my HP server, I have the integrated gigabit adapter as well as a intel 1000 gt. Currently the intel is disabled. The active use of the server is that of an AD, fileserve, act database host, hyper-v + vm's, and quickbooks for multiusers. All the VM's are attached externally to the same integrated nic. The way the network looks is I have a belkin router (dhcp) hooked into a netgear gigabit switch which fans out to all the workstations and server (has dns enabled). How can I put this other card to use? thanks
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Multiple NICS + Server?
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swatbat
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Few reasons. For some setups it is for fail over. Pretty much you loose a nic or port on a switch and the server doesn't go down.
Other times it is to bind them together for speed. This helps when you are running vm servers and say are using iscsi over the nics for the vm images on a san. You can also do it for just raw speed. For this though you need a switch that you can team ports for. You can also set separate nics for separate vm nics.
Other times it is to bind them together for speed. This helps when you are running vm servers and say are using iscsi over the nics for the vm images on a san. You can also do it for just raw speed. For this though you need a switch that you can team ports for. You can also set separate nics for separate vm nics.
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For the extra speed you would need to team the nics together. Generally they need to be the same brand for this. Pretty much you would get a new virtual nic and have one address off it. You would need a managed switch to really take advantage of it.
Unless you want extra bandwidth for one of your vms I wouldn't do anything unless you are having issues. Even then I'd be ruling out things like disk i/o.