How to access my other network cards?

Hey guys, I just got in the VM game a month ago.  We bought the essential kit of vpshere (of base) and have an esxi host 4.1 running on a dell with 4 NICs r510.  The hypervisor lists all 4 cards.  My problem is that I am trying to assign a guest virtualized to nic1 (nic0 is in use), but I can't seem to find anywhere why I can do this.  I see that all the network adapters in comments use the vm network, but I can't seem to be able to configure the vm network or even create a different network so they can I have to use another network card.

I tried to create a host, edit configuration-> hardware-> add-> ethernet card, create hit, but they are just virtual and I guess are all on the same network adapter.  This could begin to be a problem as I'd add more comments.  They cannot all be riding on a single card.  My liscense does not vnetwork distributed switch (in fact no version CEPT that last, more expensive).  How could I do this?

You need not Ent + or dvSwitches to do what you want.

You just need to add your physical network cards to the vSwitch (es) to which your virtual machines are connected.

Here is a good article:

http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/VMware-ESX-articles/installation-deployment/VMware-understanding-virtual-switch.html

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