Using NIC Adapter for ESXi Host (7.0.2) and VDS concurrently

[SR_Jaeger]

Hello all,

I like to use a 10G NIC adapter for both the ESXi host and VDS concurrently. When I switch on the adapter on the host it will be gone on this host in VDS. When I try to get the NIC in VDS back, it works fine but the host lost these. Is it possible to use an NIC adapter for both at all?

[scott28tt]

NICs in ESXi are uplink ports - each NIC port is physically plugged into a single port on your physical switch, and is also associated to a single virtual switch.

Combining your VMkernel ports and VM port groups into a single virtual switch which uses your NIC port as the uplink is the way to do this, using VLANs to segregate traffic if required.