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Yes, my plan was for closer to the end of the day. &nbsp;I would be pleasantly surprised as well.<br />
there is already one team on the machine. &nbsp;There are two other NIC's. <br />
there is just something not right about the speed of the connection for that machine.<br />
that is why I am questioning the teams.
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Yes, my plan was for closer to the end of the day.  I would be pleasantly surprised as well.
there is already one team on the machine.  There are two other NIC's.
there is just something not right about the speed of the connection for that machine.
that is why I am questioning the teams.

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Have you also set up your switches to handle teaming? You will need some awareness of it at the network level.
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Have you also set up your switches to handle teaming? You will need some awareness of it at the network level.

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Check the switch configuration for the two ports. <br />
Usually LACP is configured to these ports.<br />
Add two new ports to this portchannel.<br />
Do the cabling.<br />
Configure servers to add these two ports to teaming<br />
Cross fingers that downtime will last only a few seconds
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Check the switch configuration for the two ports.
Usually LACP is configured to these ports.
Add two new ports to this portchannel.
Do the cabling.
Configure servers to add these two ports to teaming
Cross fingers that downtime will last only a few seconds

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For the life of me I cannot remember this answer...<br />
If I have 4 NIC's on one machine two of which are already teamed can I team the other NIC's without causing an outage?<br />
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Or will this blip the machine...keep in mind this is our production SQL server.<br />
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thanks
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For the life of me I cannot remember this answer...
If I have 4 NIC's on one machine two of which are already teamed can I team the other NIC's without causing an outage?

Or will this blip the machine...keep in mind this is our production SQL server.

thanks

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