Dave Genton
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Another way(and vmware recommends) is to make sure traffic is isolated. One nic for vm's one for afp.
I'm a Data Center Engineer / Consultant professionally and have been doing it over 20 years. Past 5 dedicated to Data Center virtualization, storage, and converging fabrics. I'm VMware Certified among many others so my home and lab networks are designed like they are in the real world. Done with best practices and proven designs. Both my home and lab networks have dedicated NIC's and uplinks for iSCSI, network just for SAN/Storage traffic and replication, NIC's for user shares, NIC's for mgmt, etc. More often than not I also utilize the Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual switch in ESXi for vm switching when I need total control like for quality of service and marking frames accordingly or just a entry point in the virtualized "gray" part of the network to mirror packets for capture.