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Having a NIC for direct comms between two VMs and another NIC for regular network possible?

Hello,

Apologies up front if I say something totally wrong.  I am learning VMWare and have never actually implemented anything as I type this.

Currently, we have two physical servers with two NICs each.  One NIC on each server is plugged into a network switch for normal network communications.  The other NIC on each server has a crossover cable connected to it where the crossover cable plugs into the corresponding NIC on the second server i.e. there is a NIC on each physical server with a crossover cable running directly between them.  This crossover communication is necessary to keep some stuff off the regular network.

We are planning on implementing these two physical servers in VMs.  For HA, will have two ESX-i host servers.  Can we implement this setup such the two NIC configuration as described above can still be implemented using VMs while being able to take advantage of the two host servers for vMotion where one VM maybe on one host and the other VM maybe on the second host or the two VMs could suddenly be on the same machine?

I truly hope the above makes sense.  I hate to confuse someone who is trying to help.

Thoughts?

Respectfully,

Chris Smith

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