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akheelahmedi525
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‎08-10-2022 09:04 AM

Communication between 2 hosts in 2 different ESXI's

Hi All,

 

I am preparing a lab for VMware and Citrix infrastructure and stuck in network issue. Can you help me please?

Here is the lab details I have built

1. I have 2 esxi's running in VMWare Workstation with IP 92.168.159.5 and 192.168.159.6

 

The ESX2 (192.168.159.6) I have created 3 VM's and made one as domain controller with DNS and DHCP Role and given the Static IP Address of 192.168.10.101, Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Gateway 192.168.10.1

The ESX2(192.168.159.5) I have 2 Machines one Windows and one Centos installed.

 

Now my domain controller in ESX2 is working perfectly ok. However, I need to communicate to the hosts of ESX1 so that i can publish them using VDI feature of Citrix.

Can you help? Also, the 2 ESXI are using a NAT Switch on VMware workstation

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a_p_
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‎08-10-2022 09:12 AM

Ok, you explained how the ESXi hosts themselves are connected (NAT), but how about the VMs? How did you configure networking for them on the ESXi host, and in VMware Workstation? Maybe some screenshots will help.

André

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akheelahmedi525
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‎08-10-2022 01:59 PM

Here is the networking done for Domain Controller, Delivery Controller and Storefront server attached for Citrix components respectively

 

Domain Controller : IP: 192.168.10.101, SN:255.255.255.0,Gateway:192.168.10.1, DNS 192.168.10.101

Delivery Controller : IP: 192.168.10.102, SN:255.255.255.0,Gateway:192.168.10.1, DNS 192.168.10.101

Storefront : IP: 192.168.10.103, SN:255.255.255.0,Gateway:192.168.10.1, DNS 192.168.10.101

 

They all reside in the ESXI2 which has static IP of 192.168.159.6

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‎08-11-2022 07:28 AM

And how is networking configured on the ESXi hosts (vSwitches, Port Groups)?

Did you configure an additional network for the guest's subnet?

André

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akheelahmedi525
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‎08-11-2022 08:23 AM

I havent done much on esxi connectivity.

 

My local internet IP is 192.168.159.X

 

W.rt to same i kept the IP of 2 exi as 192.168.159.5 and @192.168.159.6 respectively

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akheelahmedi525
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‎08-11-2022 08:24 AM

Let me provide the complete details:

My VMware workstation has the below IPConfigured:

 

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As you see with this i have 192.168.159.1 as Vm adapter ip and w.r.t that i have configured 2 ESXI with 192.168.159.5 and 192.168.159.6 and the above update is already there of my configuration.

I have not configured any subnet or group. I am new to VMware. All i have done is assign 2 static ip addresses to those 2 esxi's and build the vms as said above inside them

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