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Home lab networking ideas?

Currently, my ESXi 5.5 home lab server (which has 2 physical NICs) is connected to a cheap unmanaged switch. The switch in turn has a single 1 Gbps upstream connection to my router. Everything else on my network is connected directly to the router.

So far, I've been using ESXi's default configuration - please see the attached screenshot for details. I'm decently satisfied with this, but in the spirit of learning and continuous improvement, I'm wondering if there's something that I could be doing better here - perhaps some way to make use of my second NIC, for instance?

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