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Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration
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physical ports of the device. This allows you to distribute the load of these devices across both of your
I/O Modules.
On the right side of the diagram you can see how the virtual NICs in Active System Manager map to the
physical NIC partitions when you map based on Physical Partition order. Your virtual NICs map in order
to your physical NIC partitions, but you do not maximize the entire fabric of I/O Modules.
Mapping Order Example without Redundancy Figure 4.
Below is a different example that shows four Active System Manager virtual NICs where “Redundancy”
has been selected in the deployment template. You’ll notice that in both cases the virtual NICs are
even distributed across the partitions on both ports of the device, fully utilizing both fabrics.