[nlug] Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
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

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: ===8 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

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
That makes total sense. It should work and I tried doing that (creating a virtual switch with no actual adapter attached and connecting both VM's to that switch.) The strange thing is that ~some~ things sort of work. For example, a Windows test machine can get an IP address from DHCP, but it

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
I should also add that my preference would be to use some kind of bridged networking, as opposed to Host Only. The reasoning is that I would like to be able to run any of the Super Router component virtual machines on any of my 3 physical VMware ESX hosts. If the host that is hosting these

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: That makes total sense.  It should work and I tried doing that (creating a virtual switch with no actual adapter attached and connecting both VM's to that switch.) The strange thing is that ~some~ things sort of

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Ken Barber
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[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
Yeah, I looked at that setting and thought about it, but I don't really understand that setting well enough to know what the ramifications might be. I'll go ahead and test that, though. Can't hurt to try. (I just have a test setup right now anyway. No real machines or real data.) Chris On

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: Yeah, I looked at that setting and thought about it, but I don't really understand that setting well enough to know what the ramifications might be. I'll go ahead and test that, though. Can't hurt to try.  (I

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
Yeah, I understand that they have things different. I just can't get them to seem to work. I created some virtual switches, connected to a particular network interface, and running on a particular VLAN. I would think that putting another computer on that same vSwitch would mean that the two