quick question about DMZ and networking

[sheetzdw]

PLEASE help, I am a newbie to vm and need help fast...

I have a firewall well configured and configuring 1 ESXi 5.5 server for testing only at home...

My firewall has 2 ports for  internal LAN and one connected to my ISP

on the internal ports I have

Port 1 LAN  local ip scheme with DHCP server running on the firewall

Port 2 is DMZ I have 4 static ip to use for remote, mail, web server

on ESX server I have 2 nics 1 plugged into DMZ port and 1  into LAN firewalled port

what is hte easiest way to separate these 2 and get them working

example internal vms should not ahve access to DMZ and will only have LAN nic added to teh vm

but webservers and mail server should have both nics connected and each nic gets the appropriate IP address entered based on which nic and network it uses

Can I use 1 vm switch and 1 vm network? or 1 vm switch and create 2 networks? how do I configure nics and vmnetworks to communicate properly?

[BenLiebowitz · Accepted solution]

Since you have two separate nics, one internal and one dmz, you'll need two vSwitches. Each with one nic. The first will have your internal network and management, the other for the Dmz.

Then, you'll need to create the proper portgroups.

[sheetzdw]

OK did that... now it works fine.... thanks!

this is my mailserver with both nics added

[BenLiebowitz]

Glad you got it working.