You can have as many uplinks in your standard vSwitch as ESXi supports, and connect them to the same network if you want. I think the default insall makes the first vmnic active the rest standby, but you can move the other adapters to active if you want. You set this in the standard vSwitch properties on the NIC Teaming tab. The default Load Balancing setting is "Route based on originating virtual port ID" which doesn't need etherchannel or LACP configured, the vSwitch just picks an uplink based on the virtual port the VM is connected to.
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