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jbourke
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Hate VGT ??? How else can I get 16 interfaces onto a VMWARE host

Hi,

I need to emulate a firewall which has 16 interfaces. I am not worried about performance, this is for testing only.

VGT is the way to do this, but it is "not recommended" ?

Are there any alternatives ?

john

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VirtualNoitall
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Can't you do VST: trunk all the required VLANs across a couple of nics, create the port groups for each VLAN, add a nic on each port group to the VM?

Either way you need to have some network config completed in your switch to make these all available on your ESX host. The folowing doc may help: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_vlan_wp.pdf

Hope that helps!

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