Best practices for 4 network cards?

We use Dell 10th gen blade chassis for our ESX environment. We have 2 zFCP cards for storage and 4 NICs for each box. I'm torn about how best to manage these 4 network cards. I wanted to create a separate vmkernel network, but it is difficult to justify using 2 NICs for vmkernel (redundancy). I did team all 4 cards and share them for vmkernel and comments networks (traffic is separated by VLAN). Yesterday 1 of our 4 switches failed, and all the hosts lost connectivity. It makes me rethink our network configuration.

What others do when they only have 4 available network cards? What is the recommended configuration for network vmkernel and comments?

vSwitch0:

Console service and network Vmotion: vmnic0/2 is one 5000mAh for each other

vSwitch1:

Virtual Machine Port Group: vmnic1/3 all active

I hope this helps.

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