Re: Teaming and cluster setup on Win2003 Ent, Dell servers

From: Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] (rod_at_die.spam.die.nw-america.com)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:48:56 -0600

Teaming requires the same driver for the NICs. Not sure how Dell is letting
you team a fiber and copper NIC?

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

"Marlon Brown" <marlon_brownj@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uCMUQIP0EHA.3840@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Folks, I have two identical Dell 6650 with the following configuration:
>
> Server1NIC1 - gigbit fiber ---> connected to switch1 blade1 subnet
> 130.20.10.x
> Server1NIC2 - gigbit copper --> connected to switch1 blade2 subnet
> 130.20.10.x
> Server1NIC3 - internal copper NIC, which I will connect a crossover cable
> to setup the hearbeat connection to Server2NIC3.
>
> If I cluster these two 6650 nodes, is that recommended and a good idea if
> I team Server1NIC1 and Server1NIC2 (I will do the same to my other node).
>
> My concern here is that in the past I was told that teamed NIC's should be
> identical, what's not my case now. Note that one of my NIC's is a fiber
> one and the other NIC is a copper NIC.
>
> Please advise.
>
>
>

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