I have a Dell T620 w/ dual hexacore Xeon E5's and 128GB of memory and 4x GbE NICs running ESXi 5.5 with 4 vms. I already teamed those 4 adapters to a Dell managed GbE switch (LBFO, not LACP).
For arguably good reasons, but to avoid argument, because I darn well want to, I want to team two GbE Intel Pro/1000 MT virtual adapters (again, LBFO, not LACP) on my Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Standard VM.
I tried the "workarounds" that one would use on physical servers that happened to have the doomed Pro/1000 MT PCI-X cards in Windows Server 2008 R2. However, the PROset tools just refuse to install. Using Windows "Bridge Connections" just caused the adapters to lose all network access. I do not wish to use direct access to the physical adapters, Oddly enough, Windows Server 2012, works fine with Microsoft's NIC teaming. And, it didn't cause a black hole to open and destroy the entire space-time continuum, Now, gimme my pony!
Seriously, has anyone gotten this to work on Windows Server 2008 R2?