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Axel
Asked: 2019-02-19 01:57:34 +0800 CST

ESXi 6.7 Connect two VM's on ESXi and connect them using router

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I have an ESXi host installed on a VMware workstation.
On the ESXi, I have two Ubuntu virtual machines and 1 freesco router.

I want to connect both the Ubuntu virtual machines via the router. The virtual machines are on different networks. I've set the static IP's of both the virtual machines so that they are on a different network.

Freesco router config:

link

ESXi host:

link

VM1 Static IP: 192.168.204.2

VM2 Static IP: 10.10.10.2

Switch topology: link

VM1 settings: link

Portgroups: link

Both the VM's are connected to same portgroup i.e "connect" and same switch "newSwitch".

I want to connect both the VM's using router. How can I do this?

routing

1 Answers

  1. Is this a lab setup to have a play with routing? It looks like your router only has a single port in VMWare, even though the router screenshot suggests two interfaces.

    I would expect to see two ports in use for the router, plus 1 for each of the other VMs. If the router is showing both interfaces are up then you should be ready to play.

    If you have everything in the same port group it's like the same hub in the real world, so you could have direct communication between VM1 and VM2 if you goof, which may not be helpful for learning the router.

    A suggested alternative is to put one of your VMs in a new portgroup and set a VLAN ID to between 2 and 4094 (if at work and this can connect to a real network check with the admins what IDs are free) and then have your router put one interface on each portgroup. Then VM1 and VM2 should not be able to communicate any other way apart from via the router. You could also create a new vswitch without a physical interface and put the new port switch on there and not have to mess with VLAN IDs.

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