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Virtualization Technical Reference
Network adapters
With the simplest virtualization configurations, the host and guests may share a common NIC or even a teamed NIC.Shared NICs work well for small test environments but are not recommended for large production use.We have experienced excellent performance using a dedicated guest NIC with VMware when running network intensive operations.For Hyper-V, lab tests revealed a small performance gain of lower %DPC time.