Deploying An Image With NIC Teaming Enabled Causes Duplicate MAC Address On The New Server
Article: 20000006
Applies to: All releases
Using NIC Teaming on a Windows or Linux server binds a single IP address and MAC
address to multiple NICs. When an image of a server is created with Teaming
enabled, this virtual MAC address is preserved. When that image is deployed to
another server, the MAC address is applied with the team, and the network sees
two devices with the same MAC address. This duplication causes a network
failure.
Imaging with NIC teams are not supported. Dissolve any NIC teams before creating an image of a server
and then recreate the teams after imaging is complete.
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