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Do the source and target need to have identical physical configurations for networking? The same number of NICs connected to the same networks?

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Do the source and target need to have identical physical configurations for networking? The same number of NICs connected to the same networks?

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No, the source and target ESX Servers do not have to have an identical network configuration. So long as you have created labels for each of the NICs so that VirtualCenter can intelligently remap virtual machines to physical NICs across migrations, then you can have heterogeneous configurations.