Best Practice: iDRAC & NIC Selection

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I am setting up a new Dell server with iDRAC 6 Express.

My options for the NIC are:

1) Shared 2) Shared with failover to LOM2 3) Shared with failover to all LOMs

The server has 2x dual-nic PCI-E cards (total of 4 nics)

My questions are thusly:

-What is best practice for setting this up? Is there any reason why I would not want option 3?

-If the NIC is being used for both iDRAC and the OS, (there is no dedicated iDRAC nic), does this ever cause any kinds of issues for either iDRAC or the OS?

Thanks-

-Josh

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