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DVS and uplinks design for different services

Hi,

I will have VM traffic, vSAN, vMotion and Management Services and each ESXi Host will have 4 uplinks of 10Gbps

I was thinking of assigning 2 DvSwitches:

First one:

2 uplinks (ex: vmnic0 and vmnic1) with LACP/LAG for VM Traffic

Second one:

2 uplinks with vSAN on 1st uplink (ex: vmnic2 set to Active) and 2nd uplink set to Passive (ex: vmnic3 set to Standby)

                       vMotion on 2nd uplink (ex: vmnic3 set to Primary) and 1st uplink set to Passive (ex: vmnic2 set to Standby)

                       Management on 2nd uplink (ex: vmnic3 set to Primary) and 1st uplink set to Passive (ex: vmnic2 set to Standby)

Enable NIOC on second DvSwitch and set as follows:

Management: High

vSAN: Normal

vMotion: Low

This would mean:

If both uplinks are up vSAN and vMotion will go at full speed (Management traffic is negligible)

If only one uplink is up, vSAN traffic will be preferred after Management (in case of contention)

Can I have your thoughts please and any recommendations/changes?

Below image shows one dvSwitch, in my above example there would be 2 DvSwitches per Host

           

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