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Cool. That's what I thought. Thanks, Andrew.
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We have a number of vmnics across our ESXi environment that run in standby mode.<br />
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Simple question: Is better to enable all vmnics rather than to leave some in stand by?<br />
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I would think that all should be active to allow for the most amount of traffic, rather than have a vmnic just sitting there. Thoughts?
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We have a number of vmnics across our ESXi environment that run in standby mode.





Simple question: Is better to enable all vmnics rather than to leave some in stand by?

I would think that all should be active to allow for the most amount of traffic, rather than have a vmnic just sitting there. Thoughts?

ESXi vmnic Stand By Status

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