In my VMware home lab, I want to use one NIC for the production data generated by my Virtual Machines and the other NIC exclusively for the Service Console. This setup also could work if you want to combine your management network with a VMotion Kernel Port Group. I created one vSwitch with two NICS and two Port Groups and then used the “Overriding Policies for a Port Group policy” to bind the Service Console to vmnic0 and the Virtual Machines to vmnic1. On top of that, I still have redundancy. If one in the NICS will fail, both the Service Console and the Virtual Machine Port Group will use one NIC exclusively. Load is balanced by selecting a different Active Adapter for each Port Group. Select an other active and standby adapter for both Port Groups. In a failover situation, standby adapters activate in the order specified below.
Override vSwitch failover order and select active and standby adapters for the Service Console and Virtual Machine Port Groups. In a failover situation, standby adaptors will become active.
