What networking feature should be configured to associate multiple uplink adapters sharing traffic load?

Configuring NIC Teaming allows multiple uplink adapters to work together to increase bandwidth and provide redundancy. This feature enables the distribution of network traffic across multiple physical adapters (NICs), which helps in balancing the load and ensuring that if one NIC fails, the other NICs can continue to handle the network traffic without interruption.

By implementing NIC Teaming, organizations can improve network performance and reliability. It achieves load balancing by automatically distributing network traffic among all active uplink adapters based on chosen policies, such as IP hash, MAC hash, or even originating virtual port-based distribution.

While VLAN, Distributed Port Group, and Host Proxy Switch are important networking concepts, they serve different purposes. VLANs are mainly used for segmenting broadcast domains, Distributed Port Groups provide a way to manage virtual networks across multiple hosts but do not inherently balance load among uplinks, and Host Proxy Switch facilitates communication for virtual machines but does not involve the load-sharing capabilities of NIC Teaming. Therefore, NIC Teaming is the most appropriate choice for associating multiple uplink adapters to share traffic load effectively.