NIC teaming
PCIE_NIC card What is NIC Teaming NIC teaming is the process of combining multiple network cards together for performance, load balancing, and redundancy reasons. Use NIC teaming to group two or more physical NICs into a single logical network device called a bond. NIC teaming is also called as Load Balancing FailOver (LBFO), bandwidth aggregation, traffic failover, and so on. Benefits of NIC teaming NIC teaming helps in: Load balancing — Outgoing traffic is automatically load balanced based on destination address between the available physical NICs. Fault tolerance — If one of the underlying physical NICs is broken or its cable is unplugged, server/target host detects the fault condition and automatically move traffic to another NIC in the bond. Custom attributes of NIC teaming for RHEL 7 The nic_teaming custom attribute for RHEL 7 consists of the following: Teams — Defines multiple NIC teaming data. TeamName — Defines the name of a particular NIC team. For example, te...