Hi Mike,  We recommend using switch independent. The BACS3 offers switch independent, and dependent modes. Although an advantage of LACP has better load balancing when it comes to outbound traffic, it has is more complex.  Using switch dependent modes requires more complex configuration of the switches.  The LAG type is a switch dependent type and thus is not recommended. Any type of LACP is switch dependent, meaning the switch ports will also need to be configured to match.  If you are using Server 2012, we also recommended that you do not use the BASC and use the MS LBFO (Load Balance and Failover).  On older MS versions, it is just called the Smart Load Balance and Fail-over.  Although the following link is not a MS site, it offers an easy to follow guide for some of your questions also: [URL] Let us know if that helps.    
Hello everybody,   I have 4x R710 server in the company, each has 4x BCM5709C NIC. What I want to do is to find the best avaible solution to aggregate all NICs in each server. All the servers are in the same network, connected to the same switch and they are running mostly SQL services under Windows Server 2008. I know that BACS3 support NIC teaming. So i have few question. 1. Is the BACS3 solution switch dependent or I can use any 1GB switch ?  2. What's the difference between BACS3 and using LAG switch ? 3. What would be the best solution to team the NICs? It's no problem to buy the switch you supply  thanks guys!
R710 NIC teaming