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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Subject: RE: Virtual Nic's
We use VLAN taggi
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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'
4:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Virtual Nic's
What is the list's opinion on using network connections in virtual
machines? Do you put a separate NIC for each virtual machine or do you
piggy back on the internal NIC(s)? I bought a quad NIC for my Hyper V
and just split off
What is the list's opinion on using network connections in virtual
machines? Do you put a separate NIC for each virtual machine or do you
piggy back on the internal NIC(s)? I bought a quad NIC for my Hyper V and
just split off one for each machine. But for those servers that have more
than 10 ma
