Wondering if anyone out there on the list might be able to shed some light on a problem I'm having with VMware ESX. First, the background...
We are currently running what we call the "Super Router", which is a CentOS 5 system with VMware Server installed (the free server version.) The system has 3 physical NICs, but we have about 15 NIC's configured on those various physical NICs, using VLANs. For example, we have eth1.22, eth1.23, eth1.24. Those are all on the eth1 card, running on VLAN 22, 23, and 24. This setup allows us to have a lot of networks coming in and going out of this system, while only requiring 3 physical cards. In the VMware server configuration, we use all bridged networking. We don't use any "Host Only" or "NAT" interfaces at all. Every VMware network is bridged to a network adapter like eth1.22, eth1.23, etc. Our virtual machines consist of a pfSense virtual machine that does all of our actual routing, 5 Untangle virtual machines, running in transparent mode, and a captive portal machine. Those Untangle machines do filtering, like P2P blocking, antivirus, and the like. Logically, data comes in from a WAN connection, goes into the pfSense router virtual machine and then goes out to an Untangle machine (via bridged networking) and out of the Untangle machine and onto our physical network. This is a nice setup because we have a virtual bridge between the servers by just linking them both to the same bridged interface. Here is today's problem... We have moved most of our servers over to VMware ESX, which is working really well. We would like to move all of our "Super Router" components over to VMware ESX and not run them all on this standalone VMware Server. The problem is that VMware ESX does networking completely differently from VMware Server. I don't see any way of setting up "Host Only" networking at all, in order to pass network traffic from one VM to another. I also don't see a way of setting up virtual adapters. I tried creating a Virtual Switch, tied to a particular network adapter and using a particular VLAN and then tried setting up my virtual machines to use those Virtual Switches to logically connect them (the output of one server goes into the input of another.) This doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Thanks, Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
