Hi Paul,

if you want to automatically load balance incoming traffic from clients you
need to configure both NICs in aggregate link mode (802.3ad) as well as
network switch must be able to support this feature and be configured -
there will be one IP address accessible via both network links, max
throughput will be 2x 1GBps.
If you don't have switch with support of 802.3ad you can "manually" load
balance.  Each NIC will have own IP and you need to modity dsm.opt/dsm.sys
files on client servers to point to new IP address.  This will limit max
throughput to 1GBps (or whatever speed you have) on each NIC.

Bye

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 09/14/2016
06:34:21 AM:

> From: Paul_Dudley <pdudley AT ANL.COM DOT AU>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date: 09/14/2016 06:36 AM
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Making use of two NICs
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> We have TSM v6.3 running on an IBM x3650 M4 server with Windows
> 2008. The server has a second un-used NIC.
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> If we configure and connect the second NIC, is it possible to make
> use of it so that TSM network traffic (ie: backups) could be spread
> across the two NICs?
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> Thanks & Regards
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> Paul Dudley
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