DMZ and Internal on same host

[AceParking]

So I have a ESXi 5 host with 4 pNICs (This is a test box) running 4 guest and I wanted to configure 1 pNIC for a DMZ. When I set a vSwitch, the VMkernel Default Gateway is already point to my internal gateway while the DMZ has a different IP for the gateway. Is it possible to configure a second default gateway to use for the DMZ network and how would it be done? Again, this is only a test box with nothing important on it. Just learning.

Thanks in advance.

[a_p_]

Do you want to have the host in the DMZ or just a VM. If the latter you only need to create a vSwitch with an uplink to the DMZ network and a virtual machine port group (no VMKernel port group) and set the appropriate IP settings in the guest OS.

André

[AceParking]

Yes the latter....Could you explain that a little more. Thanks

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

There's not much I can say, it's actually a very easy and straight forward setup. When you create a new vSwitch on the ESXi host with an uplink to the DMZ network, you can deploy virtual machines attached to this vSwitch (its VM port group) in the DMZ subnet as if they were physical systems. The different vSwitches on the ESXi host are not connected to each other in any way. The uplink does not need an IP address, it's only the virtual machine in which the IP settings have to be configured appropriately.

André

[AceParking]

Got it. I was making to complicated.....

Thanks