Intel Teaming on Server 2008 Core

I have been going round and round trying to setup NIC teaming on Server 2008 Core. Particularly Hyper-V Server 2008. This is built on Server 2008 Core so the problem is pretty much the same on both.

I finally was able to get it working though.

1. Install latest 14.0 drivers or newer. Just run setup.exe the GUI install works fine on Server 2008 Core. Install everything.



2. Go to your "%programfiles%\intel\ncs2\scripts" directory.



3. Run cscript Team_CreateTeam.vbs 1,2 AFT "Team #0"

That command will create an adapter fault tolerance team. I know from previous testing that ALB does not work with Hyper-V. I have not tested to see if that is also fixed in this version of driver.

I have also been trying to get teaming with Broadcom NICs to work, but no such luck. The BACS teaming software will not install without .NET framework at this point in time.

You can then use this command to check the teams settings.

"cscript Team_EnumerateTeamSettings.vba 1"

Update- 6/16/2009: I just tested this using ALB, and it seems to work ok with v14.0 on the Intel driver. Looks like Intel really got their stuff together for Hyper-V Server with this version.