old-desktop unable to get DHCP IP from DHCP Server VM running on new-desktop in LAN

[lvaibhavt]

Hello All,

I have two desktop’s at my place for home lab. Let’s call them new-desktop and old-desktop

Old-desktop boots from pen drive which has which ESXi 6 installed on it

New-desktop has windows 7 as base OS. I am running VMware Workstation 12 and have configured my lab in it.

On new-desktop in Workstation I have created a Widows 2003 DHCP machine/VM

Old-desktop and new-desktop are connected to connected to Huawei router (this has been given to me by my ISP)

old-desktop when it boots up always gets the IP (192.168.0.xx) from Huawei router instead of getting IP (10.1.1.xx) from DHCP windows server (running on new-desktop as a VM in Workstation)

I would like my old-desktop to get DHCP IP from DHCP Server (windows 2003) running on new-desktop in Workstation 12 as a VM and not from Huawei router

Please suggest what settings I need to change or view here

Thanks in advance

[bluefirestorm]

Presumably, old desktop and new desktop is connected to router via a wired network.

As an alternative (and also experiment whether it will work to begin with), is to assign a static IP address first to the old desktop with the subnet 10.1.1.x (outside of the DHCP server range) to see whether your network access from old desktop to new desktop is good to go.

You should check to see if the Huawei router has any function to block access. It might be by MAC address of the device so you would then have to enter the MAC address of old desktop; assuming the static IP address experiment worked as per your expectations.

[rcporto]

Any chance you disable the router DHCP temporarily and check if your ESXi hosts get IP rom your DHCP VM? If that works you should decide with DHCP to use, since you cannot have two DHCP active in your network.