Connecting two ESXi on different hosts (VMware Workstation)

[azizesawi]

Hello,

I'm building my home lab to work on NSX. I have two servers with Xeon Processors. I use VMware workstation on the two servers. I want to be able to make the ESXi VMs on both servers to contact with each other. For example, I create VSAN while two ESXis are on a server and the third on is on another server. or install NSX components on one server and the other components of VSphere are on the other

Thanks

[pwolf]

I do not see any theoretical problems as long as all VMs are connected to the same bridged LAN.

Practically it could well be, that you slow down your machines to a crawl, if all network traffic goes over the same NIC. Maybe you have to add additional NICs to avoid congestion especially if you try to run vMotion etc. in this test scenario.

HTH