NOTES:
l Be sure to use the latest available drivers on all adapters.
l NDIS 6.2 introduced new RSS data structures and interfaces. Because of this, you cannot
enable RSS on teams that contain a mix of adapters that support NDIS 6.2 RSS and
adapters that do not.
l If a team is bound to a Hyper-V virtual NIC, you cannot change the Primary or Secondary
adapter.
l Intel adapters that do not support Intel PROSet may still be included in a team. However,
they are restricted in the same way non-Intel adapters are. See Multi-Vendor Teaming for
more information.
l To assure a common feature set, some advanced features, including hardware offloading,
are automatically disabled when an adapter that does not support Intel PROSet is added to
a team.
l Hot Plug operations in a Multi-Vendor Team may cause system instability. We recom-
mended that you restart the system or reload the team after performing Hot Plug operations
with a Multi-Vendor Team.
l Spanning tree protocol (STP) should be disabled on switch ports connected to teamed
adapters in order to prevent data loss when the primary adapter is returned to service (fail-
back). Alternatively, an activation delay may be configured on the adapters to prevent data
loss when spanning tree is used. Set the Activation Delay on the advanced tab of team
properties.
l ANS teaming of Virtual Function devices inside a Windows 2008 R2 guest running on an
open source hypervisor is supported.
l Fibre Channel over Ethernet/Data Center Bridging will be automatically disabled when an
adapter is added to a team with non-FCoE/DCB capable adapters.
Supported Adapters
Teaming options are supported on Intel® PRO/100, Intel® Gigabit, and Intel® 10GbE adapters. Selected
adapters from other manufacturers are also supported.
Conditions that may prevent you from teaming a device
During team creation or modification, the list of available team types or list of available devices may not
include all team types or devices. This may be caused by any of several conditions, including:
l The operating system does not support the desired team type.
l The device does not support the desired team type or does not support teaming at all.
l The devices you want to team together use different driver versions.
l You are trying to team an Intel PRO/100 device with an Intel 10GbE device.
l TOE (TCP Offload Engine) enabled devices cannot be added to an ANS team and will not appear in the
list of available adapters.
l You can add Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) enabled devices to Adapter Fault
Tolerance (AFT), Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT), and Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) teams. All other
team types are not supported. The Intel AMT enabled device must be designated as the primary
adapter for the team.
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