vSwitch ESXi 5.1 workaround to virtual machines (direct access to the network)

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• Created in Esxi virtual MACHINE can't see the network

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• nested ESXi vHost, networking, the nested virtual machines cannot access outside the world.

  
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  two physical hosts ESXi: IP: 192.168.10.11/12.

  2. my laptop connected to the physical network, IP: 192.168,10.100.

  3. my two physical hosts configured with a Standard vSwitcher0, VMNIC0, portgroup MYLAN uplink vLan ID = 162, vmk0 vLan ID = 162.

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  my world physical host, my network is configured as a VST (virtual switch tagging).

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  The vSwitch on the physical host must be configured to allow the promiscuous mode and forged passes.

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  What guest operating system are your current virtual machines to run? If it is windows server, it is a chance network discovery is simply disabled. This will diminish the ICMP packets and you may not their ping.

  If the port of 3750 for NIC1 is configured as VLAN ID 30 trunk.

  Your Portgroup is configured with VLAN ID 30.

  Inside the guest virtual machines you did not indicate any configuration of VLAN, right?

  Tim

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  Not sure if this is possible, to be honest, as a virtual machine are all port groups, that it has the right. Now that I think of it, maybe create two different groups of seggregating production and test/lab put in place might work because you would not be able to connect to a virtual computer on a cluster to a portgroup on a host.

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  Hello ladies and gentlemen

  I have installed HP DL380p Gen8 1 with vmware ESXi 5.5.

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

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