The quickest way to receive support is call into support. Where are you located? I can get you the number to call.  NPAR itself is not a form of redundancy. You would still need to enable teaming and there are limitations with NPAR and teaming. Q: How are Windows BASP Teaming and Linux Bonding affected by NPAR mode? – A team cannot contain more than one partition from the same port. – NPAR adapters can be teamed with other non-NPAR port adapters, such as the BCM5709 and BCM57711 for example. – Only Smart Load Balanced and Failover (SLB with or without Auto-Fallback) switch independent teaming mode is available for teams using NPAR adapters. This is due to the way the IEEE standards require Switch dependent teaming (IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation (LACP) and Generic Link Aggregation (Trunking)) mode to work (on a per port instead of MAC address granularity). Therefore, those teaming modes cannot be used with an NPAR adapter.  www.dell.com/.../broadcom-57712-k-faq.pdf
Dear Dell Networking Community,  I Have problem with redudancy on Server inside Blade Server. We install VM inside Blade Server. the network on Blade Chasis is using Powerconnect M8024-k with NIC Broadcom NetExtreme II BCM57810. We Implement the NPAR on that NIC. actually when we disable 1 uplink A1, some VM lost connectivity and vice versa when we disable other uplink on A2. I want to open case to dell support to get fast response and hopefully can do Webex session to resolve our problem.   Can you tell us the email to open the case about problem on Powerconnect m8024-k ?  I have try to email on Dell-Force10_Technical_Support[NAME].com but They just support the case on Force 10. based on they reference, we must open case to Dell Networking.  Hopefully you can help us immediately.  Thanks.  Regards, Aziz
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