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I currently have a VMware host running ESXi 5.5.0 this host has 6 physical network cards connected, <br />
The function of this host is to run one virtual server that is a software base firewall appliance; this appliance needs to support 6 different networks, ESXi can see all 6 network cards but the vm will only support 4 is the a way to get the VM to support more than a Network cards?<br />
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Thanks
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I currently have a VMware host running ESXi 5.5.0 this host has 6 physical network cards connected, 
The function of this host is to run one virtual server that is a software base firewall appliance; this appliance needs to support 6 different networks, ESXi can see all 6 network cards but the vm will only support 4 is the a way to get the VM to support more than a Network cards?

Thanks

How to add additional Network cards to a VMware virtual machine

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.