Thanks for your help, but that is the issue i believe, i see only one, though both the physical nics i have are identical hardware intel nics.
~ # esxcfg-nics -l
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
vmnic0 0000:02:00.00 e1000e Up 1000Mbps Full 00:25:90:a4:57:d2 1500 Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
~ #
And
under configuration-network adapters, i see only vmnic0.