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Teaming NICs may improve throughput a bit - but as only one NIC can transmit on the network at once, you will not double throughput by teaming - its essentailly a fail-over.
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Teaming NICs may improve throughput a bit - but as only one NIC can transmit on the network at once, you will not double throughput by teaming - its essentailly a fail-over.

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Thank you. Are there any suggestions on how to reslve the issue, other than splitting the data across two physical servers?<br />
Thank you.
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Thank you. Are there any suggestions on how to reslve the issue, other than splitting the data across two physical servers?
Thank you.

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Hi, &nbsp;I've done some analysis on a server and have discovered the Single Nic total bytes is averaging on 52% despite the network utilisation being 15%. (All other device counters are OK).<br />
Can i ask, if i team the Nic, do they both work at the same time thus reducing the load on the single nic or does teaming simply act as fail-over. Also, slots permitting, is it possible to team more than one card, ie. could all 4 be part of one team?<br />
Thanks for looking.
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Hi,  I've done some analysis on a server and have discovered the Single Nic total bytes is averaging on 52% despite the network utilisation being 15%. (All other device counters are OK).
Can i ask, if i team the Nic, do they both work at the same time thus reducing the load on the single nic or does teaming simply act as fail-over. Also, slots permitting, is it possible to team more than one card, ie. could all 4 be part of one team?
Thanks for looking.

Does teaming a Nic mean they both work at the same time and can more than 2 be in one team?

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