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
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
Thanks for the answer Troy!
Hello,
Moved to Virtual Machine forum.
Max allowed is 4 vNICs per VM.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
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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?