How many network cards do I need to build 3-server HA system?

Mayank006

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I learned that we need one Internal IP for HA data transfer and one for public use IP. I am not sure how it works Please suggest.

Do we need two network cards per server? (Dual Port 10GbE for HA and Dual Port 1GbE for other use)
 
You want dedicated NICs for a corosync ring (+ optionally for management) as the latency should always be below 1ms so you don't want any other traffic on that NIC/switch that could reduce QoS.
Then a NIC for your guests.
And another NIC for backups/migrations/replication so when those saturate your NIC this wouldn't affect your guests.
When using ceph maye more NICs.
 
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