On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Chris McQuistion
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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?

I might not be following this correctly, but it sounds similar to
something we had at one
point.

We only had two physical network cards in our ESXi server.  We had
three virtual
switches configured.  vSwitch0 was connected to vmnic0 (physical nic) vSwitch1
was connected to vmnic1 (physical nic) and vSwitch2 had no physical nic.

vmnic0 was connected to our LAN and vmnic1 was connected into one of the DMZ
ports on our edge switch, so in was basically " on the Internet" so to speak.

vSwitch2 (which has no physical network) had a VM that had a virtual
network card
connected to vSwitch0 and vSwitch2.  This VM was setup as a Linux
router and routed
traffic into and out of that virtual switch.

I hope you're able to follow that.

In the end, we were able to route traffic into and out of a virtual
switch that had no physical
connection to any real network by building a virtual machine with two
network interfaces
and using it as a router.

Again, hopefully this makes some sense, and might be helpful.  I
wouldn't mind providing
simple diagrams or the like if you need, or even a screen shot of
vSphere or what not.

-jonathan

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