To add to all the others if the server is a high profile, high usage machine
then don't piggy back the NIC's. On the other hand low profile, low usage
servers work well with piggy backed NIC's. You can try one high usage and
one low usage servers sharing a NIC. I have tried a number of differnet
We have 6-8 nics in our boxes (either dual or quad port cards) this allows us
redundancy on all virtual switches. In most cases
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:16 AM
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From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Virtual Nic's
As long as you have Gb nics, I wouldn'
As long as you have Gb nics, I wouldn't buy additional nics for each
virtual server.
If you are using more bandwidth than that on a virtual, does it really
need to be virtual or off on it's own box.
From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:02 PM
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