I've installed ESX4 on an old Dell 1950 to start consolidating some RHEL5 servers.
The host has two Broadcom 5708 NICS, however only one is currently connected to a network. The current networking configuration consists of a single vswitch, with a VM Port Group and a Service Console attached, connected to the sole active NIC.
I created a guest os with default options, specifying the guest to be RHEL5 32 bit. I initially attempted to PXE boot the VM however did not recieve a DHCP offer and /var/log/messages on the DHCP server did not show a request coming from the new MAC.
As a fallback, installed the VM using an iso, using a static IPs. After install, tried to ping some of the hosts on the intranet (on the same subnet). I am able to ping localhost, the local static ip and the IP of the service console, but everything else is being reported unreachable.
Logging into the ESX console, I am able to ping both the VM and all ips on the intranet. Is there some configuration I need to do to allow the guest VM access outside of the ESX sandbox?
While I couldn't get a straight text dump of the esxcfg output I copied down the details:
esxcfg-vswif -l:
vswif0 Service Console IPv4 192.168.81.102 255.255.0.0 255.255.255.255 true DHCP
esxcfg-vswitch -l:
vswitch0 32 4 32 1500 vmnic0
VM Network 0 1 vmnic
Service Console 0 1 vmnic0
esxcfg-nics -l:
vmnic0 03:00:00 bnx2 Up 1000Mbs Full 00:50:56:1d:fe 1500 Broadcom BMC5708
vmnic1 05:00:00 bnx2 Down 1000Mbps Full ...... 1500 BroadcomBMC5708
