How do I assign Ethernet ports (NIC) to each VM created? (VMware ESXi 6.5 Web UI)

[randomuser1999]

Hello:

I am a novice when it comes to VMware and this is my first time creating Virtual Machines. Currently, I am stuck, trying to assign individual internet connections to each individual VM.

My setup is a host PC with four (4) VMs created and I installed a PCI-E network card with four (4) individual Ethernet ports. I am using both the VMware ESXi web user interface (accessed by my unique STATIC ID) and the VMware VSphere Client (which will not allow me to edit settings; for 5.5 and older) to create/edit/access the VMs.

I understand there are no longer any physical NICs and it is now virtual, but how do I create/assign VM an individual network?

Can someone please give me the dumbed-down (dummy version) of how to go about doing this? Maybe even provide screenshots? I have been troubleshooting for three (3) days now and everything I find is for older versions of the ESXi, unclear explanations, or I'm just missing something.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

ESXi Novice

[SureshKumarMuth]

I assume you are using a standard switch, in that case if you want to have different VLAN / segment for each VMs, you have to follow the following procedure

1. Create virtual machine port group for each VLAN in the virtual switch , check the following link to do that

Create a vSphere Standard Switch

2. Once created, go to individual VM settings and add a vNIC if it is not there and there you will get an option to choose the port group on which the VM should be attached.

Hope, I answered your query.

[Nick_Andreev]

Or alternatively, if you can't use VLANs for whatever reason, you can set individual vnics as active and all others as inactive for each individual port group to physically separate traffic between four NIC ports.

But without knowing your network topology it's hard to give a targeted answer.