Josh26 wrote:
I would prefer two individual cards to protect against a card hardware failure
How many failed NIC cards have you seen in the last ten years?
I've seen failed RAM, failed motherboards, fan and power supplies, but the last time a NIC failed, it was a 100Mbit model.
You have HA there to deal with a server that experiences a failure - a NIC fail counts as such a failure. I wouldn't let you worry you.
Fair point, but for the cost of a 1GB port, why not cover the bases? HA still results in a short downtime and application crashes. If I thought it had much chance of occurring, I'd run 2 of the 10Gb cards,.