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I'm running a few Hyper-V servers with four on-board NICs and I've configured each one with its own virtual switch assigned to a dedicated NIC and VM; we won't be adding more VM's and the Hyper-V management is allowed on all NICs because I can't spare a NIC just for management, one of the NIC's has a static IP in case <br />
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There are no iSCSI or SAN devices.<br />
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Is this an acceptable setup or should the 4 NICs be teamed and shared on one or more Virtual Switches?<br />
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thank you,
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I'm running a few Hyper-V servers with four on-board NICs and I've configured each one with its own virtual switch assigned to a dedicated NIC and VM; we won't be adding more VM's and the Hyper-V management is allowed on all NICs because I can't spare a NIC just for management, one of the NIC's has a static IP in case 

There are no iSCSI or SAN devices.

Is this an acceptable setup or should the 4 NICs be teamed and shared on one or more Virtual Switches?

thank you,

I'm not 100% sure what the best practice is for Hyper V switches

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