Hi There,
Struggling to find a solid Microsoft response on this one please. Im deploying physical domain controllers running windows server 2016 standard with ADDS and I would like to know what the best practice is for network configuration please? specifically for domain services
The servers are HP DL380 with 2 x 10GB network cards
Specifically...
1. Should we team the NICs using windows teaming?
2. What are the supported teaming configurations (switch independent/LACP) active/active or active/passive
3. Any reasons not to use LACP? im guessing because active/active is not recommended
I've read numerous articles stating that active/active should not be used and also that teaming is not recommended etc but nothing recent and not alot from official Microsoft either way on the matter.
Could anyone shine some light on this please? a MS article in black & white would be useful :-)
I'm proposing to team the NICs using switch independent/Dynamic or address hash and configure a standby NIC.