Isolate the DHCP in vswitch

Hi all

I hope for some help that I spent the last 4 hours searching the Internet for an answer and does!

I have a relatively simple ESXi installation which I use a development platform. I am currently only using a NETWORK card on the host server which is connected to a physical switch that uses the rest of the production for the company network.

What I'm trying to do is to establish a network of simple test with three servers, a domain controller, another Member and an Exchange Server. The domain controller is configured to run DHCP by using the 192.168.1.x range. The domain controller has two network cards virtual, one linked to a vswitch which is connected to the switch of physics and the second NETWORK card that goes to a separate vswitch which other servers are connected to. The reason for DHCP is so that the technical team can create new VM machines with different operating systems and do not need to worry about configuring static IP addresses each time. The domain controller receives an IP address on the beach of 192.168.0.x network production network.

A picture shows a thousand words, so here are the network config:

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The problem I have is that some devices on the production network to receive an IP address assigned to them from the DHCP server on the virtual rather than the DHCP computer in the production network. I'm running unauthorized DHCP server to stop what is happening but can't find a way to isolate the DHCP server so that it gives that IP address to the virtual machines connected to vSwitch1.

Thank you very much

Scott

Hello Rocco,

Thanks for the help.

I did a little research focused on the development of infrastructure rather then focusing on the aspect of VMware configurations and found Server2008 will broadcast packets on all DHCP assigned with a static IP public network adapters, even if it is only not on the links. However, when the NETWORK adapter is set to DHCP, then the server will not broadcast it.

So what I ended up doing puts the NETWORK adapter for DHCP and then booking the IP address for the server so that it is always the same IP address for the production and the custom of DHCP server DHCP Server give it to someone else.

I tried using dhcploc and it works perfectly.

Thank you very much

Scott

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