I need to simulate WAN conditions between 8 clients and 8 servers (in other words I need 8 separate client-server WAN connections). In order to accomplish this, I want to buy a machine (Dell server) with 16 NICs and install 8 WANem instances (each running in a VM on the machine; virtualization technology is ESXi). The 8 WANem instances will, of course, service the 8 client-server connections. Some questions I have:
1) Would this work?
2) Are there better/other options?
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I need to simulate WAN conditions between 8 clients and 8 servers (in other words I need 8 separate client-server WAN connections). In order to accomplish this, I want to buy a machine (Dell server) with 16 NICs and install 8 WANem instances (each running in a VM on the machine; virtualization technology is ESXi). The 8 WANem instances will, of course, service the 8 client-server connections. Some questions I have:
1) Would this work?
2) Are there better/other options?