VMware vSphere SDKs and Tools 6.7

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Specifying Multiple Uplinks with ESXCLI

At any time, one port group NIC array and a corresponding set of active uplinks exist. When you change the active uplinks, you also change the standby uplinks and the number of active uplinks.
The following example illustrates how active and standby uplinks are set.
  1. The port group NIC array is
    [vmnic1, vmnic0, vmnic3, vmnic5, vmnic6, vmnic7]
     and
    active-uplinks
     is set to three uplinks -
    vmnic1
    ,
    vmnic0
    ,
    vmnic3
    . The other uplinks are standby uplinks.
  2. You set the active uplinks to a new set
    [vmnic3, vmnic5]
    .
  3. The new uplinks override the old set. The NIC array changes to
    [vmnic3, vmnic5, vmnic6, vmnic7]
    .
    vmnic0
     and
    vmnic1
     are removed from the NIC array and
    max-active
     becomes 2.
If you want to keep
vmnic0
 and
vmnic1
 in the array, you can make those NICs standby uplinks in the command that changes the active uplinks. 
esxcli network vswitch standard portgroup policy failover set -p testPortgroup --active-uplinks vmnic3,vmnic5 --standby-uplinks vmnic1,vmnic0,vmnic6,vmnic7

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