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Thoughts & Recommendation for multiple NICs, VMware ESX servers, & Nutanix

We are in the process of evaluating HCI Platforms. We plan to run VMware ESX server on Nutanix HCI for a VDI solution. Currentlty running VDI solution on Citrix and Cisco UCS now. The end solution will support roughly 3000 - 5000 users. I would like to get any thoughts and recommendations on the topic of the number of 10-GB NICs to have on the Nutanix HCI platform, per node. Most HCI platforms are sold with two physical NICs. Obviously, this makes it hard when using multiple NIC's in VMware to protect important traffic - specifically, the management and IP storage traffic. Where in UCS there might be 6-8 NICs on an ESX server - 2 x for Mgmt, 2 x for vMotion, 2 x for IP Storage, and 2 x for Guest VMs - this gets consolidated on to two NICs in a Nutanix node. I understand this will work, but, is it a better practice to use multiple and separate physical NICs in Nutanix to isolate VMware traffic and functions to ensure each function has bandwidth? In short, for VMware on Nutanix

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