SOLVED: VIDEO: Broadcom NIC Teaming & Troubleshooting
Creating a network adapter team is generally an easy way to double triple or quadruple your throughput but there are a number of annoying roadblocks to get around with Broadcom NIC’s
Broadcom NIC Teaming Gotchas:
Install the latest Broadcom firmware and drivers
Unplug your network cables while creating the team
Make sure you created the same NIC link aggregation (aka. Team) on your switch BEFORE you create it on on your servers NIC’s
Download and install the latest Broadcom Advanced Control Suite
RIGHT CLICK on the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
If you still can’t get NIC Teaming (aka. NIC aggregation) done
Uninstall the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite
Using Hyper V Manager > SWITCH MANAGER > uninstall any NIC’s
Using Device Manager uninstall all your NIC’s
Reboot
Go to step 1 above and start again
The most annoying gotcha is the RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR requirement. If you don’t do that CREATE TEAM will not appear.
Below is a video demonstrating some of these Broadcom issues and solutions: