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metahugh
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Max number of network adapters per host

Good Afternoon,

I am trying to simulate a Checkpoint firewall on ESX 3.5. My current firewall has 9 network adapters. I have created a Virtual switch and connected two physical NICs to it. I can only create 4 NICs and can't seem to find documentation as to what the maximum number of NICs you can attach to one virtual machine. Does anyone know?

Thanks!

Hugh

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Troy_Clavell
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you can only have a maximun of 4 NIC's in a VM

and per host:

Physical NICs

Number of e100 NICs 26

Number of e1000 NICs 32

Number of Broadcom NICs 20

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Troy_Clavell
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you can only have a maximun of 4 NIC's in a VM

and per host:

Physical NICs

Number of e100 NICs 26

Number of e1000 NICs 32

Number of Broadcom NICs 20

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metahugh
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Thanks for the answer Troy!

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Texiwill
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Hello,

Moved to Virtual Machine forum.

Max allowed is 4 vNICs per VM.


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CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

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dstambaugh
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any way around this? I'd like to setup a VM with a NIC on each of our VLANs (about 10). This VM would function as Last Man Standing for WOL packet distributor. Or do you know of a better way to do this?

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