Can you provide details on how you set up the virtual networks in Workstation?
We have bridged each physical NIC to a VMNET and then to a VNIC on the VM.
By "4 system NICs" is that 4 NICs on each physical machine, or 2 NICs on both of the machines for a total of 4 NICs?
4 physical NICs on each server. There is a pair that supports function A and another pair supporting function B. If one NIC in a pair fails it switches to the other. The servers are redundant pairs as well so that if one goes down the other immediately takes over.
What exactly do you mean by "whatever NIC is active". Are you activating one network interface at a time on the servers? All NICs are enabled but in each pair only one is being used by the software. If that were to fail it would start reading packets from the other.
None of these NICs have tcp/ip protocols assigned.
