How Do I Bind Two Network Adapters in the Windows Server 2012 R2 Operating System
Context
Network adapter binding indicates that two physical network adapters on the same server are bound into one virtual network adapter using the software to improve the network speed and implement load balancing.
Answer
The server needs to have two physical network adapters installed.
- Log in to the server as the administrator user.
- On the Network and Sharing Center page, delete the configurations of the two network adapters.
- Choose Server Manager > Local Server.
- Click Disabled to access the NIC Teaming page.
- On the NIC Teaming page, create a network adapter binding group.
- On the New team page, set the following parameters. The selected adapters must be the network adapters to be bound together.
- Teaming mode is set to Switch Independent by default. In this mode, switch is not involved in the NIC Teaming configuration.
- Load balancing mode is set to Address Hash.
- These settings apply to the active-standby mode.
- On the Network and Sharing Center page, view the created network adapter group.
- Set the IP address of the network adapter group.
- Verify the configuration. Ping the IP address of the network adapter group from another server on the same network segment to verify whether the network adapter group is successfully configured.