How it works...
vMotion requires, at a minimum, a single, active, 1 GB network adapter. A second standby adapter should be configured to provide redundancy for the vMotion network.
A vMotion migration can consume all of the available network bandwidth. If the vMotion network is shared with other network traffic, traffic shaping or NIOC should be enabled to prevent vMotion from impacting other virtual network traffic. If possible, vMotion should be configured on a separate physical network or separate VLAN.
vSphere 5 introduced the ability to configure multiple adapters for use with vMotion. Multiple-NIC vMotion allows for the bandwidth of multiple physical NICs to be leveraged by vMotion to speed up the migration of virtual machines between ...
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