VMWare hypervisor with only 1 network card?

Posted by Rafiq Maniar on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Rafiq Maniar
Published on 2012-12-17T15:10:02Z Indexed on 2012/12/17 17:04 UTC
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VMWare hypervisor minimum requirements states that the minimum network requirements is:

one NIC, plus one for Management interface

(source: http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere-hypervisor/requirements.html)

It used to be possible to use 1 NIC only. Is anybody using the new versions of VMWare in this configuration?

I ask because my colo provider will only provide me with 1 uplink (my server does have 2 NICs).

I need to be able to run the VMs and also have remote management using only 1 NIC.

Possible?

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