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Teaming Dual NICs 

Jul 30, 2007 01:33 PM

Just an FYI for others out there. We have our Altiris Deployment Server running on an HP DL380, and I wanted to run two 1 Gig NICs to the server and team them. After I teamed the NICs together, I changed the network settings to disable the TCP Checksum Offload. With these network settings, we were only able to deploy an image to about 10 to 15 computers at a time without problems.

I have since taken the team NICs off, and am only running 1 NIC on the server. We are now getting a full lab of 30 computers to go at one time before we have problems. I'm not sure why this happened, but if anyone else out there has a teamed 2 Gig connections and experienced similar results, you may want to try taking the teaming off. It made a huge different for us.

Curt

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Sep 18, 2007 04:15 PM

I Tried again by teaming ports on the switch and then teaming the nics on our server and it worked much better.
Thanks to everyone for the idea.

Sep 13, 2007 11:24 PM

Guys,
is there a way to automate the NICs teaming process via a script and to deploy it trough altiris deployment console ???
Any help would be appreciated.

Sep 12, 2007 09:01 PM

As the others have said, teaming has present no problems we are Teaming 4 Intel Gib Nics in our Sun x4200 server to a Linksys 24 Port Gbic managed switch with no problems, we image in the region of 50 computers at once (difference images, multicast and unicast)...and performance is pretty sweet, we get in the region of 350-400Mb/per min, performance is pretty much now governed by the speed of the hardware we are imagining to.
Chris Brittan
ACP 2007

Aug 30, 2007 01:47 PM

Does anyone have any scripts for teaming Broadcom/Intel NICs via the Deployment console? We use teaming software (HP proprietary and Broadcom/Intel for our other vendors). HP has an option to use CQNICCMD for capturing/applying a NIC config but I haven't seen a similar tool for Broadcom/Intel.
Thanks for any help/direction...

Jul 30, 2007 04:15 PM

Haven't had any problems teaming NICs here, using Intel NICs and Broadcoms.
The trick is on the switch. Configure a couple ports (or more if you like) on the switch using LACP (Some switches require the ports to be side by side, the Cisco we have does) and then use you NIC software utility to create the team on the server.

Jul 30, 2007 03:06 PM

We have a HP DL360 g4p with the 1 gig NICs teamed. We haven't had any problems imaging. We have successfully imaged between 30-60 computers at one time.
On another note, we did have problems right off the bat but it turned out to be the network switches had qos set low on the data pipe which was choking the server.

Jul 30, 2007 02:36 PM

I have never been able to use teaming and Deployment Solution successfully.

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