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all physical servers to Switch-A. Connect vmnic1 in all servers to Switch-B. In this configuration,
traffic between CVM nodes in the same rack moves over the same switch without needing to
traverse the upstream switches. You can configure traffic for additional port groups and VMs to
use the other switch (B on vmnic1) as active to separate CVM traffic from user VM traffic at the
physical switch level. You can also select other port group configuration options such as load-
based teaming or originating virtual port ID for guest traffic, depending on the VM requirements.
The following vSphere networking configuration diagram shows the CVM Network failover order.
Figure 3: CVM Network Active Adapter Selection
Configure the Guest Network as shown in the following diagram or use any other suitable
teaming strategy for this port group.
