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Oct 19, 2023

Feature Request: Please Remove NIC Teaming from Windows Server Manager and more

Dear MSFT Windows Server Team, Since there have been unexpected changes but appreciated on Windows Server Manager (vNext shows Azure Arc status)   I would appreciate if vNext could have the follow...
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sfijndata
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Oct 20, 2023
LBFO is the preferred teaming method for most scenarios, so it should definitely not be replaced. Putting more configuration options in the GUI (like LACP timer) would be nice - or the option of changing default settings for LBFO.
Support for upgrading servers with teamed NICs would also be nice.
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Oct 20, 2023

sfijndata LFBO Teaming has a better successor called SET Teaming, requires to install Hyper-V Role though. The scenarios where LBFO would perfom better than SET, especially for SMB, are minimal and you save on configuring things like LACP.

 

LBFO is on the way out for years, but the communication has not reached everyone, leaving it in Server Manager prominently without a hint, does not contribute to help customers moving on to SET.

I am not requesting to remove LBFO entirely, that is the scope of the product group to announce a clear deprecation and removal of the feature in a roadmap, so people could get familiar with SET ahead of time. There are working converting scripts, but nothing official from Microsoft, and they might not use every bells and whistles such as SR-IOV and VLAN Isolation.

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