Vsphere 4 networking

It is correct, because the teaming is managed by esx and you can configure teaming policy as needed for each vswitch
by the way, i dont think you should assign any vm with public ip directly, you should setup NAT instead
the number of vNIC for each VM depends on how many you assign and has nothing to do with vswitch
I dont see why you want to separate NICs for 10.0.X.X, just assign 3 NICs to vSwitch2(eg. vmnic2, vmnic3, vmnic6)
remove vSwitch3, and assign vmnic5 to vSwitch0 then remove VM Network from vSwitch0(security reason)
If for know you dont need vmkernel port that is fine
Let me know if this is clear
Cheers!

Did you try:

Edit virtual machine settings > Add Hardware > Add network adapter?
 
Do this for each server that you want to have 2 NICs. You could specify a particular NIC to a particular server this way.

And, looks like you don't have any guest VMs set up to use vmnic0.  
Also, what happened to vmnic4?  (Might as well enable it)
Then, move either eg-connect or egconnectdb to the vmswitch0 with these two NICs.

Then, you will have four guest VMs, each with 2 dedicated NICs.  (Well, the guest on vmswitch0 will have to share with the service console, so the preceding statement is not 100 percent true)

Thanks guys for the info, as you can see i have two nics assigned to each guest vm...why is it that I only see ONE nic for each vm. What am I missing?

Can you screenshot the VM properties?

Hi, here it is. These are the screen shots for the ecgconnect vm.

So it is correct, you only assign 1 NIC to it NOT 2 NICs
If you need 2 NICs for this VM, then you need to add 2 "Network adapter"
as i said "the number of vNIC for each VM depends on how many you assign and has nothing to do with vswitch"
i thing you are confused with this part right?

I guess I must be, but in that screenshot doesnt it show 2 NIC cards assigned to each VM??? Where is there only one Nic?

Look at vswitch1, ecgconnect is there as a vm with vmnic1 and vmnic7 assigned. Doesnt it mean those two "Physical Adapters" are assigned to that network and all vm in that network?

Nope, that concept is wrong
You can assign multiple NICs to a vSwitch and team them for redundancy/load balance and better performance
But this vSwitch can be used by many VMs, depends on how many ports you defined
Just like the real physical switches, they have 8, 12, 24, 48, etc.
But at the VM level, you define how many NICs you want for each VM and each NIC can be connected to different vSwitch as desired
As you can see in your screenshot, at the drop down list "Network label" has 4 different vSwitch to connect to and this setting is only for "Network adapter 1" for ecgconnect VM
Hope this is clear

Just to add, see example below

Let say you assign 4 NICs to a vSwitch labeled 192.168.100.x, you set to have 24 ports for this vSwitch
And you create 10 VMs in your ESX
Each VM has a single NIC and each NIC is connected to 192.168.100.x
So, all 10VMs can connect to each other via 192.168.100.x vSwitch, and Internal_Net has 4 NICs to utilize(depends on team policy set for this vSwitch)
And you still have extra ports for other VMs to connect to 192.168.100.x vSwitch since you use only 10 ports

Sorry correction for this
So, all 10VMs can connect to each other via 192.168.100.x vSwitch, and Internal_Net has 4 NICs to utilize(depends on team policy set for this vSwitch)

Should be

So, all 10VMs can connect to each other via 192.168.100.x vSwitch, and 192.168.100.x has 4 NICs to utilize(depends on team policy set for this vSwitch)

Ok I understand the physical adapters attached to each vm...I have done this and it works do thanks.

The vswitch concepts is what is confusing me...

You said  "But this vSwitch can be used by many VMs, depends on how many ports you defined
Just like the real physical switches, they have 8, 12, 24, 48, etc."...ok, if three of the VM use 3 different subnets connected to the one Vswitch, will this work? Or are you saying that each vswitch is equivalent to a real switch, and that each adapter provides traffic for all vms on that network? Thus, if you have multiple vms on that one vswitch with different subnets, you need to do some vlans?

Sorry. Im just confused with the entire concept.

I guess to add to that...in my scenario where I have vmnic1 and vmnic7 assigned to ecgconnect, if I have the actual VM connected solely to ONE physical adapter, and vmnic1 is busted, will vmnic7 continue providing services to that VM? Does this mean if that vm only requires one IP, there is no reason to apply TWO physical adapters because the redunancy is at the vswitch?

Yes because under each vSwitch you can further create port group and assign vlan id :)
But you need to understand how vlan works so this is consider as advanced configuration
Perhaps the following pdf can shine the path http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_vlan_wp.pdf
Cheers!