Connect VMs inside ESXi hosts (running on laptop vmware workstation) to the internet

[MohamadAlhousse]

Dears,

I have VMware workstation on my laptop and I am running 2 ESXi hosts nested inside the VMware workstation.

I am running several VMs on these ESXi servers.

My question is how do I connect these VMs to internet ?

I am able to connect the VM running on the vmware workstation directly to the internet by changing network adapter to "NAT".

However I am not finding a way to connected VMs running on the ESXi host inside VMware workstation to the internet.

Please if you can help.

Thank you

[continuum]

Try to use Bridged mode" for the ESXi-VMs.
If you have a router in your bridged network that should solve all problems.

[MohamadAlhousse]

Thank you dear,

So you mean we can just add a NIC on the ESXi VM in bridged mode and this nic will be the uplink of the portgroup connected to that guest VM ?

Please tell me if this is what you mean.

Thank you again

[continuum]

Exactly.
The restricting factor here may be the policy restrictions of your physical router - but that can be solved.