benplace Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I would like to take my traffic heavy servers and trunk the two gigabit ethernet ports giving me 2 gig of bandwidth. I have the two cards, and I have Windows server 2003 installed. Is there an easy way to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NienorGT Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Something like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benplace Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 Yea, thats exactly what I want to do. I have Proliant servers and a CISCO 6513 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majortom1981 Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Yea, thats exactly what I want to do. I have Proliant servers and a CISCO 6513 IF the two cards are intel cards you can use the intel utilities. You would also have to set it up in the cisco switch. We do it here . we have two intel server cards connected to a 4108 procurve switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Title Edited There are a few guru's around here. Next time please use a more descriptive title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted July 29, 2008 Veteran Share Posted July 29, 2008 With our Proliants, we just use the NIC management software (which HP Smartstart installs) to create a load balance 'team' with the 2 1gbps NICs. A virtual adapter is then presented to Windows at 2gbps. No changes needed on the switches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majortom1981 Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 With our Proliants, we just use the NIC management software (which HP Smartstart installs) to create a load balance 'team' with the 2 1gbps NICs. A virtual adapter is then presented to Windows at 2gbps. No changes needed on the switches. He is right i just looked at our switches again. With our nics (two intel server nics) we just used the software that came with them no switch config neccessary . our switched automatically detected the trunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fingers.t.beaver Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 You may need to be carefull as if spanning tree detects the two routes it may block one of the connections take a look at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk21...08089a821.shtml to configure ether channel and the HP device Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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