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RimBlock said:
Search for a E1G42ET as it will do the job and is around 130.00. Note the ESXi management network can use a shared network port as long as the chipset is ESXi supported. Having a dedicated port is really overkill as the traffic is minimal. Put your management network and your DC on vSwitch 3. Unless it is not supported, there is not much reason to do IO passthough on the network now. ESXi 4.1 used to have quite a bit of overhead on the networking but now with ESXi 5.1 you can easily get good speed without passthrough and you will get better use out of it.

RB
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Thanks for the advice. I think I will still need a 4 port NIC as 1 will be used for management/DC, 1 to connect to the Untangle appliance and 1 for the DMZ.

An updated diagram:
<img src="http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/4037104/M.png"/>

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Thanks for your advice. I'm just thinking about expandability. In the future I'd like to have a separate 1U server for Untangle (only because it'll look cool in my rack lol!). I think for now your layout is good since I found a E1G42ET for £50.

How did you make the diagram by the way?
 
Just thought I'd give you an update.

This server had been working great since last Xmas. I have set up FreeNAS with the 4x2TB drives and Windows Server Essentials 2012 as my DC. Speeds arent great over a 1Gb ethernet but bearable. I also have Untangle running and Symantec SBS on all my clients.

Not sure if I should try to team up a dual Intel NIC to get better speeds?
 
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