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First you would need appropriate network switch configuration and then you can consider NIC teaming for either bandwidth expansion and/or failover. Using LACP or similar trunk option you can do both at the same time / increase bandwidth and make sure that if one NIC connection fails it'll continue working.
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First you would need appropriate network switch configuration and then you can consider NIC teaming for either bandwidth expansion and/or failover. Using LACP or similar trunk option you can do both at the same time / increase bandwidth and make sure that if one NIC connection fails it'll continue working.

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Hi Experts,<br />
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I am running ESXi 6.0 that hosts a domain controller and a remote desktop server. Presently i am using only one NIC and the other one is unplugged. What would be the best way to make the second NIC work and share the network traffic load. What are the other advantages of setting up NIC Teaming.<br />
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Thanks
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Hi Experts,

I am running ESXi 6.0 that hosts a domain controller and a remote desktop server. Presently i am using only one NIC and the other one is unplugged. What would be the best way to make the second NIC work and share the network traffic load. What are the other advantages of setting up NIC Teaming.

Thanks

NIC Teaming in ESXi

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.