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Chapter 12: Virtual NICs

BMD00220, October 2010

Figure 20

vNIC Failover Solution

By default, vNIC Teaming Failover is disabled on each vNIC group, but can be enabled or disabled
independently for each vNIC group using the following commands:

Hypervisor

NIC

VNIC

vSwitch

VM 3

VM 4

Hypervisor

NIC

VNIC

vSwitch

VM 1

VM 2

Servers

Port 1

Port 2

Port 10

Port 11

VNIC

Group 1

VNIC

Group 2

Primary

Switch

To Backup

Switch

Virtual

Pipes

Upon Port 1 link failure, the switch

informs the server hypervisor

for failover on affected VNICs only

RS G8124(config)# vnic vnicgroup

<group number>

RS G8124(vnic group config)# failover