Network Teaming Issue

[Francis Phillips]

We have a server which showed one of the NICS as disabled so I planned to upgrade the network configuration utility to the latest version as well as the drivers.

I opened the network utility to try and see if I could dissolve the team and then re-establish it. As soon as I clicked the dissolve button I got a BSOD.

After the server restarted the team had been dissolved. I updated the software and the NIC drivers with no error messages.

I then tried to create a team. I highlight both nics and click create team. It then applies the changes successfully and creates the HP network team connector where I can set a single IP address for the team.

When I go into the network config utility it just shows both nics not set up as a team. It gives me the option to create a team.

Can anybody suggest what is going wrong?

[Rancher]

If one of the NICS was disabled when you updated, maybe they were never teamed. There is some setting that must be done on the switches, I beleive. Another group handles that where I work, and before a server could be teamed, they had to work their magic.

[Dan Robinson_4]

If your truly stuck:
1) Write down the IP info for the machine and then set ALL NICs back to DHCP.

2) Go into Device Manager, delete your NICs and reboot.

3) Windows should re-detect them on boot and possibly name them LAN 3 and 4 or 4 and 5. These are seen in Windows as "New" NICs.

4) Then try to team them again.