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It's NIC Teaming you are looking for.<br />
The NICs drivers must support it and you need an utility to configure it.<br />
HP servers use the HP Network Configuration Utility.<br />
What is the brand of your NAS ?
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It's NIC Teaming you are looking for.
The NICs drivers must support it and you need an utility to configure it.
HP servers use the HP Network Configuration Utility.
What is the brand of your NAS ?

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I do not want to do full clustering. I just want to use the two NICs I have to balance the traffic to this NAS. Its an Iomega NAS 200d - but I would also like to set it up on my Dell servers as well.<br />

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I do not want to do full clustering. I just want to use the two NICs I have to balance the traffic to this NAS. Its an Iomega NAS 200d - but I would also like to set it up on my Dell servers as well.


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we juts got a nas with 2 NICs. The OS is Win 2K3 Applicance edition. Can I configure these as a &quot;cluster&quot; for load balancing and failover on my network?<br />
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I tried playing with the netowrk load balancer under admin tools but could not get it to work.
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we juts got a nas with 2 NICs. The OS is Win 2K3 Applicance edition. Can I configure these as a "cluster" for load balancing and failover on my network?

I tried playing with the netowrk load balancer under admin tools but could not get it to work.

network loadbalancing on the same server

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Windows Server 2003

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