We're going to replace 3 production ESXi hosts on which some VMs are running. Current hosts are: rack HP DL 360 servers with 4x1Gb NIC ports for VMs. These VMs are in fact Windows Servers, various versions - 2008R2, 2012 and 2016 all Standard editions. New hosts - also HP DL360 but new Gen 10 - will have 10Gb NIC ports, and my questions is: because VMs use currently 1Gb NICs, after shut-down and moving shut-downed VMs to new hardware (new hosts and VM's files to new storage also) after powering up in new vCS these VMs, will Windows VMs find/recognize 10Gb interfaces instead of 1Gb ? Of course now they have static IP assigned, but any other changes will be required to do ? Will Windows recognize 10Gb automatically ? Can older version - 2008R2 - work with that connection ? It will be on hosts ESXi 6.7 or 7 installed - no decided yet.
