Instruction Manual
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Conditions that may prevent you from teaming a device
During team creation or modification, the list of available team types or list of available
devices may not include all team types or devices. This may be caused by any of several
conditions, including:
• The operating system does not support the desired team type.
• The device does not support the desired team type or does not support
teaming at all.
• The devices you want to team together use different driver versions.
• TOE (TCP Offload Engine) enabled devices cannot be added to an ANS team and will
not appear in the list of available adapters.
• You can add Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) enabled devices
to Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT), Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT), and Adaptive Load
Balancing (ALB) teams. All other team types are not supported. The Intel AMT
enabled device must be designated as the primary adapter for the team.
• The device's MAC address is overridden by the Locally Administered Address
advanced setting.
• The device has a virtual NIC bound to it.
• The device is part of a Microsoft Load Balancing and Failover (LBFO) team.
Microsoft Load Balancing and Failover (LBFO) teams
Intel ANS teaming and VLANs are not compatible with Microsoft's LBFO teams. Intel®
PROSet will block a member of an LBFO team from being added to an Intel ANS team
or VLAN. You should not add a port that is already part of an Intel ANS team or VLAN to
an LBFO team, as this may cause system instability. If you use an ANS team member or
VLAN in an LBFO team, perform the following procedure to restore your configuration:
1. Reboot the machine
2. Remove LBFO team. Even though LBFO team creation failed, after a reboot Server
Manager will report that LBFO is Enabled, and the LBFO interface is present in the
‘NIC Teaming’ GUI.
3. Remove the ANS teams and VLANS involved in the LBFO team and recreate them.
This is an optional (all bindings are restored when the LBFO team is removed ), but
strongly recommended step
NOTE:
If you add an Intel AMT enabled port to an LBFO team, do not set the port
to Standby in the LBFO team. If you set the port to Standby you may lose AMT
functionality.
