# Scenario 2: Recommended Decoupled Networking Setup

When hosts have six or more network interfaces spread across at least two cards, management and VM traffic can be separated for even greater network throughput. The overall configuration is very similar. The storage lanes are still separated as they were previously. In this case, create an additional bond across two of the interfaces for VM traffic. As previously, a bond is also created for management traffic. In this example, these bonds are created in an active/passive configuration. ![Decoupled networking setup](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007332en_us/GUID-836F5A32-34A0-43D6-A05D-AB05ECB651F0-high.png)

![Networking setup](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007332en_us/GUID-5C3E4911-46A2-4E57-B199-568E3E2C5AFA-high.png)
