I'm not sure how to make it work. 2 guests, 2 virtual machines, trying to keep the traffic on the Server Blade.

I have two blades on the same chassis running ESXi 4.1, each has an Exchange Server on it. Im trying to keep the traffic between the two Exchange boxes contained between the two. I thought that I could put in the same vSwtich, but looks like I need vDS for this. I don't have this license level.

Now, I found myself with two separate vSwitches with the same label. network, it shows them on the same vSwitch so they don't transmit traffic. because they are separate switches... my vSphere networking missing a bit... need to study more.

Since you have virtual machines on different blades that the traffic between the two will have to cross a physical network card.   If you need to segment this traffic, you can configure a VLAN in your network, add a new group of port on each host to ESXi virtual machine and then set up a NIC in the virtual machines to use this group of VIRTUAL LAN port.

Though the virtual machines on the same host (always) you can configure a single vSwitch.   In this case the traffic between virtual machines would not hit the physical network and you wouldn't need even a physical NETWORK adapter, attached to the vSwitch.

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