Question on Azure and NIC Teaming

Question

_{Saturday, January 21, 2017 10:52 PM}

I am somewhat new to Azure and IaaS. My question is: can I use NIC teaming with an Azure VM that has 2 network interface cards?

Would there be any benefit or am I missing the point with regards to Load Balancing?

Thanks

All replies (2)

_{Sunday, January 22, 2017 11:52 AM}

Hi,

Thank you for posting on Azure forums. We are please answer your query.

We now support multiple network interface cards (NICs) on VMs in Azure so you can bring your own networking and security appliances such as load balancers and firewalls in your virtual cloud environment.  Multi-NIC capabilities can also provide you more capability to manage your network traffic. You can isolate traffic between the frontend NIC and backend NICs, or separating data plane traffic from the management plane communication.

Please refer to the links below:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/multiple-vm-nics-and-network-virtual-appliances-in-azure/
/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-multiple-nics

I hope that the reply will assist you in getting your query addressed. In case you require further assistance, please do reply to the thread as we are always available to your queries.

Best Regards
Sadiqh Ahmed
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_{Friday, May 18, 2018 8:20 PM | 1 vote}

Hi,

Thank you for posting on Azure forums. We are please answer your query.

We now support multiple network interface cards (NICs) on VMs in Azure so you can bring your own networking and security appliances such as load balancers and firewalls in your virtual cloud environment.  Multi-NIC capabilities can also provide you more capability to manage your network traffic. You can isolate traffic between the frontend NIC and backend NICs, or separating data plane traffic from the management plane communication.

I'm not convinced this answers the question. NIC Teaming is different from Multiple NICs in an Azure VM. Can you please clarify if NIC Teaming with an Azure VM Operating System is supported, such as Windows Server 2016.