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hetz
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separation between guests

Hi,

For this discussion, lets say I have 10 VMs - a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j

I would like to separate traffic completly from each machine, so machine b cannot listen under any condition to other VMs, and the same goes to all the 10 VM's. I do, however, would like an option to allow traffic between machines a,c,e and the world if needed, for example.

On physical infrastracture I would need to do such a thing with VLAN on a managed switch, so I'll need to take 4 IP's and give 1 to the machine itself, and other addresses for the switch (routing, gateway etc). What is the equivalent on vSphere? vswitch or dvswitch, and does it let me have the separation that I need?

Thanks    

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mcowger
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VLANs work fine in VMware, both with vDS and vSS models - you would do it the same way as a physical environment.

--Matt VCDX #52 blog.cowger.us
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