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Yes that is the way the teaming algorithm in ESX works. Your policy is basically interpreted as "try to keep 3 active uplinks". ESX will bring in a standby anytime there are not 3 active uplinks, and hosts with no pNIC connected to an uplink port get treated the same as if there were a pNIC there with link state down. The only way to accomplish what you really want currently would be to use separate vDS for the separate host types.
One question for you though, presumably you're trying to configure this way bc you want ESX to favor the 10G uplink in the hosts which have that. Would introduction of a IO scheduling which considered uplink speed so that for example if you teamed a 1G and 10G uplink active/active you'd see a 10:1 ratio of traffic favoring the 10G meet your needs? Or do you envision still having a need to specify teaming on a per host basis rather than per portgroup?