Servers not booting after enabling teaming

28 Nov 2007 9:03 PM

trhacker

One of our customers is setting up 3 new Windows 2003 Servers.
The installation was fine, but after enabling teaming on the onboard nics,
all 3 servers stopped responding at boot-time. Now they only boot in Safe
mode
(without networking), and Last Know Good Configuration does not fix the
problem.
Two of the servers are Dell PowerEdge 2950, the third is Dell too but I
donâ€™t know the model. NICs are Broadcom and are embedded in the motherboard.

1) What drivers/services do I have to disable to prevent teaming to load and
succesfully boot in normal mode?
2) Is there some known issue with teaming and/or Broadcom nics, Windows
server, some bugfix Iâ€™m not aware, etc.?

Maybe I have not given sufficient informations, but thatâ€™s all I got for the
moment (tomorrow I â€˜ll be able to contact my customer in order to have
further details), in the meantime Iâ€™ll be glad if someone could give some
hints nonetheless.

Thanks for your attention

29 Nov 2007 6:58 PM

Iain

How many NIC's have each server got ...? it seems to read that you have
teamed the 3 servers together .. ? Sorry if am reading it wrong.

Teamin of multiple NIC's installed in the same server would give a single
physical address to the NIC's installed allowing for transmit / receive load
balancing depending on how you configured the teaming at installation. Only
1 physical address would exsist.

--
Iain Marshall
MCSE MCSA MCPs MCP

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"trhacker" wrote:

> One of our customers is setting up 3 new Windows 2003 Servers.
> The installation was fine, but after enabling teaming on the onboard nics,
> all 3 servers stopped responding at boot-time. Now they only boot in Safe
> mode
> (without networking), and Last Know Good Configuration does not fix the
> problem.
> Two of the servers are Dell PowerEdge 2950, the third is Dell too but I
> donâ€™t know the model. NICs are Broadcom and are embedded in the motherboard.
>
> 1) What drivers/services do I have to disable to prevent teaming to load and
> succesfully boot in normal mode?
> 2) Is there some known issue with teaming and/or Broadcom nics, Windows
> server, some bugfix Iâ€™m not aware, etc.?
>
> Maybe I have not given sufficient informations, but thatâ€™s all I got for the
> moment (tomorrow I â€˜ll be able to contact my customer in order to have
> further details), in the meantime Iâ€™ll be glad if someone could give some
> hints nonetheless.
>
> Thanks for your attention
>

29 Nov 2007 7:13 PM

trhacker

"Iain" wrote:

> How many NIC's have each server got ...? it seems to read that you have
> teamed the 3 servers together .. ? Sorry if am reading it wrong.

No, I did'nt teamed the servers together: for each server, two nics are
teamed together in order act as a single interface. But the the servers are
not linked each other (no load balancing between them).
The same behaviour occurred for each server: they stopped responding after
boot.

Hope to have been clearer