Intel Communities: Message List - Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

Re: Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:07:33 GMT

ok it didn't resolve the issue, but I've got to be truthful here. Its a hp server with hp nic drivers with the intel ans software installed on top. Do you think this would cause a conflict? Hp's NCU doesn't support the VMLB mode as far as I can tell, we've backed out the configuration.

Re: Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:20:33 GMT

Hopefully we'll be able to apply these today, I'll let you know if it works for us. VMLB sounds cool so we went with it, it seems to be more dynamic then the other teaming options. Note that since none of this has worked properly yet I can't say if its cool or not!

Re: Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:04:03 GMT

Based upon the description of the issue, it appears to match the symptoms of a bug fixed in release 15.4, which would also be included in 15.4.1.

I'm not an expert on teaming, however I have found a nice web page the explains the differences for you:

http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-009747.htm

Re: Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:13:59 GMT

Patrick, can you confirm me that 15.4.1 solve this problem? I don't have time to update all my server if the problem isn't solve!

Also, which advantage i have to use VMLB instead of ALB?

Thanks for your help!

Pat

Re: Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:50:30 GMT

Seems like this was fixed in 15.4. The latest driver available is 15.4.1 which you can get from here:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19163&lang=eng

I've no idea why the normal driver download site has 15.2 as the latest - I'm poking folks on that. However I'm told that the link above has the drivers that should fix this issue for you.

Re: Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:05:58 GMT

looked at the readme for 15.2 didn't see anything about vmlb, but I could have missed something!

Re: Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:46:39 GMT

ok found 15.2 is that the one you were looking for?

Re: Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:41:48 GMT

15.2 is the latest and greatest I believe (I am checking on that with folks, as this is not my area). It can be downloaded here:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=3189&DwnldID=18725&lang=eng

I am not sure if the VMLB fix is in this version or not, as I said I'm checking on it.

Re: Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:19:43 GMT

we are running 15.1.29 is there something newer?

Re: Problem with Teaming (i guess) in Hyper-V

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:19:18 GMT

we are running 15.1.29, is there something newer