"Using HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software with Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 Hyper-V or with Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 Hyper-V R2" HOWTO, 4th edition

Introduction

HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software lets your ProLiant systems running Microsoft® Windows®

Server 2008 Hyper-V take advantage of HP network controller teaming technology.

NIC teaming means grouping several physical NICs into a single logical NIC. NIC teaming enhances

fault tolerance by increasing availability of a server’s network connection. Multiple network paths let

you balance network traffic for better performance.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is a scalable, hypervisor-based virtualization platform for

provisioning and managing virtual server workloads. NIC teaming and virtualized platforms can work

together to increase efficiency of large-scale enterprise systems.

This HOWTO paper defines a step-by-step procedure for installing the software and implementing

NIC teaming.

Software requirements

Using NIC teaming on an HP ProLiant server in a Hyper-V environment requires the following

software:

• HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software: HP Network Configuration Utility (NCU) version 10.10 or

greater. It is in HP ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) 8.60 on the HP SmartStart CD. It is also available

from

http://www.hp.com.

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Before installing the teaming software, verify HP ProLiant server support: Refer to the HP paper

“Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on HP ProLiant Servers.”

Order of installation

You must install and enable the software in the following order:

1. Install and enable the latest version of Hyper-V from Microsoft.

Review and install the appropriate Windows updates and hot fixes identified at

“Hyper-V Update

List for Windows Server 2008” and “Hyper-V Update List for Windows Server 2008 R2.”

Using Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core or Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 requires

you to install the hot fix

“Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core.”

2. Install and enable the HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software.