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TheVMinator wrote:

I have 4 pnics.  I'm looking to use 2 for management, vmotion, ft and 2 for production traffic.

You will be using FT? That feature is very sensitive to having undisturbed network traffic. If you will be using FT (and not only ordinary HA) then you might want to have FT on one adapter and share management and vMotion on another.  Then the other two for VM traffic.

TheVMinator wrote:

Should I use any kind of link aggregation?

Yes, in the sense that it is the only setup that gives you redundancy. However, you will most likely want to use the Port ID NIC Teaming policy, which takes no physical switch aggregation setup.

Should I set up my uplinks in active / standby configuration?

Yes, that should be a good idea on your non-VM vSwitch.

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