Hi All,
I need to experiment (and learn) how to use APC Powerchute network shutdowns, against my VMWare Physical hosts.
Aim is to:
- Use the network card in the UPS to initiate the graeful shutdown to the hosts
- Then have the hosts gracefully shutdown the VMs.
So I thought 'why not install ESX into a VM itself to play with', as I was told on my training course a few months ago 'should be possible'...
That way I could practice without endangering the production environment, and no extra costs.
At this stage I'm not trying to do anything fancy. No sub-VMs or anything... just trying to get ESX installed.
I've given the VM (TEST-HOST1) 2 NICs. And the install of ESX4.1 went ok. However, although the vswif0 interface gets issued an IP from our DHCP server, for some reason I can't ping that IP from our LAN, nor does any traffic get in or out of the VM.
Looking at the TEST-HOST1 VM, theres no default route getting defined.
Both NICs are configured for the same LAN within the real physical hosts.
The SC is obviously able to talk to that LAN as it gets an IP issued by DHCP.
iptables shows that ICMP should be allowed (default), and I've tried disabling iptables to allow all traffic.
Even if theres no default route, I should still be able to ping TEST-HOST1.
Any ideas ? On a previous build I did try to install VMware tools, but obviously theres no GCC, so I can't build the network drivers, and it doesn't look like its needed anyway.
Obviously I've missed something, but not sure what.
