Looking at deploying AlwaysOn Availability Groups for the first time in our test VM (ESXi 5.1) environment and our OS admin is asking me if each node in WSFC requires a dedicated heartbeat NIC or a virtual switch. I looked through MS' pre-req (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff878487.aspx) but didn't come across either of these two mentioned in it. My expertise isn't in the OS, Network, or VM side, so I'm hoping someone who's had experience to a similar setup can help me out here. Thanks.
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