Thus, all the traffic from the OS will pass through that one, let’s call it virtual NIC and then it will pass load balanced between all the physical NICs assigned to that one virtual NIC. When we are teaming adapters, we are taking two or more physical adapters, up to 32, which are connected to the same switch, or different switches, and we are presenting them as one NIC to the operating system. This means you can use whatever network cards you want and the teaming will work like a charm. In the past (prior to Windows Server 2012 R2), in order to perform NIC Teaming, we would have needed two adapters which were from the same vendor, and a third-party software that would make the teaming possible and present the OS with just one “virtual” network card.Now from Windows Server 2012 R2 and up, this is built-in and its hardware agnostic. Yes, just two physical adapters, no extra software or what not. When enabling NIC Teaming, we will need at least two adapters present on the Windows Server machine, and that’s about it. NIC Teaming is a very nice Windows networking feature that lets us use more than one adapter in a paired mode (team) for better speed and more redundancy.
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