How to Configure the NIC Teaming Process

The Arcserve Appliance contains built-in Ethernet ports. To use these ports, an Ethernet NIC teaming needs to be configured. NIC Teaming allows multiple network adapters placed into a team for bandwidth aggregation and traffic failover to maintain connectivity in the event of a network component failure.

To configure a working NIC Team, a network switch supporting the link aggregation is required. Consult your network switch vendor and Microsoft Windows Configuration document to configure the NIC Team.

After the network switch is configured, follow these steps:

1. From Windows desktop, launch the Arcserve Appliance Wizard.

   Note: If a DHCP or static IP address is used, you can configure the IP address for the NIC Team in the Network Connections screen. Ensure that a valid IP address is assigned to the NIC Team and is available on your network.

   

2. Run the following command:

   C:\\Program Files\Arcserve\Unified Data Protection\Engine\BIN\Appliance\resetnic.bat

3. The configuration completes and the following message appears.



4. To verify that the configuration is working, log into the Linux Backup Server in the Hyper-V Manager and ping the IP address for the specific computers on your intranet. If this fails, review and repeat this procedure.