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vmnics vs physical nics

What is the correlation between virtual Nics and physicial nics?  I have  the following:
wrmnic0 - 10 gig fibre
wrmnic1 - 10 gig fibre both connected to my NAS
then
wrmnic 3,5,6 & 7 all connected on a VMswitch 2
wrmnic2 connected on vmswitch 1

I'm trying to add 2 more servers on the same vlan however, I don't have any more nic cards.  I have 4 ports on a seperate nic on the hardware but it's just not showing up.  
On my vmswitch2 I created VP port group and the server is up and running - but is the correct?  Will the traffic get slowed down.  I'm enclosing a screenshot
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Physical nics you can touch and share, virtual nics you cannot touch so they are logical.
In hyperv you can bind the nics to a virtual switch. All servers can obtain network access through that one and only vswitch to the outside.
In other words, you dont need more  nics.

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so I will not have issues with Traffic?  So once I run out of resources I'm done. - Meaning CPU and memory?  How many nics do I need for 6 servers on the same vlan?
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So basically 2 nic and virtual port will do the trick.  Thank you so much.
Two nics at 10Gbe is huge for 6 VMs

BUT monitor......
the 10gb is only to the NAS the regular VM's are on gig connections
Okay same applies two minimum is fine

But I don't know your VMs or traffic

So monitor performance in the future and add more if it's the bottleneck