Hi. I'm recently installed VMWare ESX 3i on a server computer with a virtual machine with Windows 2003 Server inside. Installation works perfectly, but I couldnt connect from Windows OS to Internet and from Internet to Windows OS. I have read by default this connections are not allowed and user have to configurate it. The problem is when I use VI Aplication to con figurate the ESX Firewall (like documentantion indicates) under "Configuration/Security profile/Firewall/Properties".... Firewall option doesnt appear under "Security profile"
Anyone know how to configurate to get connection from Windows OS to Internet??
Thanks a lot!
Security profile may not be applicable here as 3i does not have service console.
Check if your windows VM has got a ip and can reach the DNS server and Gateway.
First of all, I'm using VMWare 3i Server without Virtual Center. I connect directly with 3i server using VI client.
VM has IP but cant reach DNS servers and Gateway. When I installed the 3i server, I checked the connection with DNS servers and with another external computers. All worked fine, so I thought there were anything wrong with firewall configuration or something like that.
When I installed VM (Windows 2003 Server), in configuration menu - Networking, seems to be all ok. There is one virtual switch created, a port group and physical adapter, all in green status. But I cant reach Gateway.
Any idea? :S
If Security profile is not applicable to 3i version, how to configurate firewall options in this version?
Thanks...
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Liz one of your friendly communities moderator.
If the VM cannot reach GW and DNS then how does it get IP Address DHCP/Static?
Or may be the Virtual Swtich is got a wrong uplink or VLAN config.
Attach the output of command esxcfg-vswitch -l and esxcfg-vmknic -l
Hi Liz. I was looking for this thread in ESX forums, but I couldnt found it. Could you post a link or say me, how to navigate with menus?
Thanks a lot.
Hi ssahadev2.
Where I have to execute these commands? (i'm noobie)
I post the following information about network config:
Computer IP: 10.16.8.xxx
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador>ipconfig /all
Ethernet Adaptator local area conection:
Description . . . . . . . . . : MT PRO/1000 de Intel(R)
Dirección física. . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-34-B0-82
DHCP habilitado . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration enable : Yes
IP Direction of autoconfig. . : 169.254.238.194
Sub-netmask . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default gateway.. . . :
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>route print
IPv4 Routing table
Network Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
169.254.0.0 255.255.0.0 169.254.238.194 169.254.238.194 10
169.254.238.194 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 10
169.254.255.255 255.255.255.255 169.254.238.194 169.254.238.194 10
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 169.254.238.194 169.254.238.194 10
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 169.254.238.194 169.254.238.194 1
Why "default gateway" wasnt fix when I installed de VM? Is it automatic? How to resolve it?
Help!! :S
The VM is not getting IP from DHCP server, thus it has take a autoconfigured address 169.x.x.x
- Do you have a DHCP server in your LAN?
- Remove VMnic1 from the uplink as its disconnected.
- Run the command using RCLI Download from (http://vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=VI-RCLI)
Hi ssahdev2.
I have resolve it!
The problem was that I thought ESX works like VMWare Workstation fixing virtual Lan's. VMWare Workstation assigns virtual IP's to virtual machines, ESX works with real IP's. Then, I fixed real IP to VM (Windows virtual machine) manually and it worked finally
Thanks for your help!