In the VMware world, you do in effect team all of the NICs that are in a machine, by attaching them to a vswitch, and trunking them so that they can carry multiple VLANs, if necessary.
It's more efficient to do so, IMHO. Kurt On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Jim Majorowicz <[email protected]> wrote: > If I have a server with two physical NIC adapters that will have Windows > 2012 R2 on it and will host 2 VM, should I build a NIC team for all three > servers or just allow one of the VMs to share a NIC with the Host? > > I was thinking of using a team, but now I'm not so sure. In the past I've > always made sure I've had a NIC for every VM plus one for the host. This is > the first time I'll be short one NIC. >
