pNIC virtual Switch Port group pNIC conf on PG nic0 ServiceConsole nic0 Active/nic1 Stand By vSwitch1 nic4 LAN-00 nic1 Active/nic0 Stand By or nic0 and nic 1 active nic1 VMotion (Must set VLAN ID) NIC1 Active/NIC2 Stand by vSwitch2 nic2 iSCSI (Must set VLAN ID) NIC2 Active/NIC1 Stand by nic3 vSwitch3 DMZ NIC3 active/NIC5 Stand by or both active for load balance nic5 Again. this is only recomendation. other solution is that you have doubled network for LAN and only single network for DMZ. I don't know what you realy need. In perfect world you shold have every think separated and doubled.