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One of the two PVE servers has NIC names sets in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. So I add a row for the new NIC:
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*"...