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jayjgolf
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‎11-20-2014 04:27 AM

Does ESXi 5.0 host support NAT?

I have network configuration that will only allow 1 ip address (Netmask 30) to our company's cloud. I would like to have the ESXi host management network to NAT to the VMs that would be on this same network. Is this possible? I have installed ESXi host 5.0 but have seen nothing that would support NAT within the host.

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JarryG
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‎11-20-2014 04:39 AM

ESXi is not router, it does not route traffic to VM over its own management interface (but both management and VM-traffic can share the same physical nic). You could use one VM for this, but I do not recommend it. If that VM went down, ESXi hosts would be unreachable...

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