I am trying to setup my home lab and I just purchased a new server. My server configuration is below
Intel Xeon CPU E5-2620 V4 Processor Sockets 2
Model: S2600CWR
Network Ports: 4
My Router IP Range is 172.16.127.1 - 172.16.127.120
ESXI IP Address is - 172.16.127.3 (Static)
DNS IP Address is - 172.16.127.4 (Static)
VCenter IP Address is - 172.16.127.5 (Static)
Current Virtual Switch
VSwitch 0:
Management Network
vmk0: 172.16.127.3
Physical Adapter: vmnic0
VLAN ID: --
Outside Network
VLAN ID: --
VM Network
VLAN ID: --
Virtual Machines(6)
DNS
SQL Linux
VCenter
SQL Server Windows 1
SQL Server Windows 2
Windows Server 2016 Template
I am not network expert guy and I am trying to setup Multi Sub Net Network with single ESXI to test the Windows Server Fail Over Cluster and SQL Server High Availability. I am trying to simulate one sql server in On-Premise and another server in data center with different sub net. At present I have installed one DNS and two SQL Servers. Before installing another DNS for Data Center and SQL Servers, I would like to setup the Network correctly.
My question is below
Is it possible to configure two different subnet configuration and talk to each other in single esxi? If yes, How to configure? What steps I have to follow.
Please help
Yes, it is possible to have multiple subnets configured in a single ESXi host. Most people use VLAN tagging to separate those networks, but it would require a managed switch capable of understanding VLAN tags.
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So we have a setup of two esxi hypervisors running multiple VMs and we have them controlled by a vCenter server setup as a VM on one of those esxi servers. In the past, when I've had to migrate these to a different network with a different domain name and everything - I just deleted the vCenter server, migrated esxi servers (updating their IP configurations) and connecting them to the new network and then setup a new vCenter server on that network again in one of those esxi servers.
My question is this - is it possible to migrate the vCenter server onto the new network? From my experience, the IP address and domain name of the vCenter setup is so intertwined that you cannot. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks in advance.
I'll make this quick.
I have created a virtual network by setting several VMs to use HostOnly VMnet1 as their network adapter.
I then added a pfsense virtual machine firewall into that same network and configured it to allow traffic to the internet but block to/from my real home network.
That way - my virtual network can connect to the internet even though it is in host only mode.
The thing is, I need to manually set the DNS and Gateway of each machine in VMNet1 to the VM firewall to allow them to communicate since all communications must flow through it.
I was trying to figure out if I can do this automatically. When I go into Virtual Network settings in VMWare Workstation 16, the only options I can set are the subnet and available IP Scope. There is no option for default gateway or DNS here. Can this be done?
Do you have the ability to run a DHCP server on the PFSense firewall which is connected to the VMNetwork? If so, either Windows and Linux VMs that have their NICs set to DHCP, would get the IP, DNS and GW from the DHCP.
I have set up several ubuntu VMs using virtualbox. Right now I'm using network type as NAT and have access to it from the host machine, but what are the network changes that are needed to access these VMs through putty from other machines that are connected to the same network(wifi) ?
figured it out myself, first turn off the VM.
- enable two network adapters
- 1) host only - to connect between host and guest machines
- 2) Bridged network - to expose the vm to the network and assign ip address for each vm through dhcp
note: In my case I used vagrant tool to spin up my VMs, hence assigned fixed private ip to each vm,by enabling host only..I could do a headless start and then log in to VMs through putty(using fixed private ip) and get the dynamic bridge network ip.
I've installed pfsense 2.3 x64 in virtualbox with 2 adapters; One is bridged to my wifi adapter (adsl modem) (WAN) and the other one set as'Internal network' ('intnet') (Lan);
The problem is that although pfsense can automatically detect dhcp over first adapter and get an IP but my system (the host) can not ping the pfsense server (pfsense can ping both adsl modem gateway and the host).
Note1: Disabling the antivirus and firewall (kaspersky internet security 2016) has no effect.
Note2: I know that this setup works because I use the exact same network configurations for a Kerio Control server (v9.0.2, installed in virtualbox)
Note3: If I constantly ping pfsense server in my host (ping 192.168.1.102 -t) and at the same time restart pfsense server, during the booting phase of pfsense I can get two pings!
After contacting the pfsense official forum, it turned out that the WAN interface blocks everything by default. Therefore, either a rule should be defined to allow WAN to accept traffic or access server from LAN side.
I figured this out without having to go through the WAN interface, answer is on the pfsense forum
Configure host-only network "vboxnet1" (or any of the other host-only networks if you're already using vboxnet1 for other VMs) with the following:
192.168.1.77 (or whatever IP you want your host to appear as on the network)
255.255.255.0
DHCP Disabled
The make sure that the LAN adapter on your pfSense VM is a "Host-only Adapter" and that it's using "vboxnet1" (or whatever network you configured above)
Reboot/re-install and http://192.168.1.1 should work now
I installed Vsphere 6.0 on a VM workstation 11 and on booting it gave me an IP address (static) - 192.168.254.XX and i used the same address to log into the Vsphere Client.
In Vsphere Client, I created 01 VM. My ESXI machine in workstation is connected to physical NIC (Bridges connection) and is supposedly getting internet access.
How will the internet connection be routed to Vsphere VMs via ESXI system on VM Workstation. As per my understanding, the Vsphere client where my VMs are installed, is interfaced to ESXI system. So, do i need to NAT my NIC to the ESXI IP address or to my ISP address (DHCP)??
i want to give internet access to my VMs in Vsphere client How should i go about it? My internet connection is a DHCP based system.
Also, how to go about configuring DD-WRT to distribute internet to various VMs??
Regards
Ravs
If you create two virtual manchine, you should create a virtual NIC for each, with different IP addresses. So you end up having 3 IP: ESXI native IP, VM1 IP as VM2 IP. If you want to access your VM from outside your lan, you should open the port on your router and then NAT to desired VM IP. Hope this is what you need.