Hi Guys,
I've been searching through for similar reports but unable to find any thus far.. hence the post..
I have VMW 10 running on a core i7 lappy, with 3 hosts all connected up using the host only (vmnet1) network. This works fine.
Hosts are: PXE build/cobbler server, a Win 2k8 R2 solely for Vsphere client, and the other, as you've probably guessed is an ESXi5 host (built via PXE from the cobbler server)
Now adding a virtual machine on the ESXi host, the PXE boot process gets the correct dhcp address from the build server, but then an ARP timeout whilst trying to tftp the pxelinux.-0 file.
A TCP dump on both sides of the vswitch shows the ARP request being made, and replies sent by the build box, but never arriving on the vm side of the vswitch.
I've enabled the vswitch promiscuous, forged transmits on vswitch0, tried different nic types - all to no avail.
The vswitch0 also carries management traffic (vmk0), and a test virtual can ping this address when booted from a live iso, but get out no further.
Any known solutions or suggestions? I must be missing something 😃
