I am building out a home lab and I can not get the hosts to ping eachother. Below is my lab info and the steps I have taken.
Update: to sum this problem up in one sentece, the two hosts cannot ping each other. A seperate VM in Workstation can ping both hosts. A VM running on one host can ping another VM running on the other host but cannot ping the host itself.
Lab Build-out:
Physical Server
1x Physical Server running Windows 7 with Workstaion 9 (I am running my lab nested under workstation 9)
1x Cable/Wireless router. (I am in a wired config, not wireless)
Router IP: 192.168.1.1
Physical NIC IP: 192.168.1.163
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: 192.168.1.1
Workstation 9 Network Config:
1x network on VMnet0 running Bridged mode, assigned to my Phy NIC
Workstation 9 has the following hosts/servers
1x standalone install (VM) of Windows Server 2008 (confiugred as AD-DS and DNS)
Domain: homelab.local
IP#1: 192.168.1.3 and IP#2: 192.168.1.4 (both vNICs are set to Bridged and set to "replicate physical network connection state"
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: 127.0.0.1
2x ESXi 5.1 Hosts
Host#1: IP: 192.168.1.30 (vNIC is set to Bridged and set to "replicate physical network connection state")
Host#2: IP: 192.168.1.31 (vNIC is set to Bridged and set to "replicate physical network connection state")
Both Hosts have the same subnet, gateway and DNS. Both Hosts are joined to the homelab.local domain
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.4 ( I have created records in both forward and reverse DNS and they resovle)
1x vCenter Appliance (running on Host #1)
IP: 192.168.1.7
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.4
I have joined this vCenter to the domain homlab.local
1x Windows Server 2008 (running on Host #2)
IP: 192.168.1.9
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.4
I have joined this server to the domain homlab.local
My Problem
I cannot get the two hosts to ping each other. So when I go into vCenter I cannot add any host except the one vcenter is running on. This all due to them not being able to see each other.
Detailed steps:
AD-DS/DNS VM running in workstation 9 (not running on any host)
CAN PING:
- 192.168.1.1 (gateway)
- 192.168.1.3 (self)
- 192.168.1.4 (self)
- 192.168.1.7 (vcenter on host 1)
- 192.168.1.9 (windows server on host 2)
- 192.168.1.30 (esx host 1)
- 192.168.1.31 (esx host 2)
- 192.168.1.163 (phy NIC)
ESX Host#1 VM running in workstation 9
CAN PING:
- 192.168.1.1 (gateway)
- 192.168.1.3 (AD-DS/DNS)
- 192.168.1.4 (AD-DS/DNS)
- 192.168.1.7 (vcenter on host 1)
- 192.168.1.30 (self)
- 192.168.1.163 (phy NIC)
CANNOT PING
- 192.168.1.31 (esx host 2)
- 192.168.1.9 (windows server on host 2)
ESX Host#2 VM running in workstation 9
CAN PING:
- 192.168.1.1 (gateway)
- 192.168.1.3 (AD-DS/DNS)
- 192.168.1.4 (AD-DS/DNS)
- 192.168.1.31 (self)
- 192.168.1.9 (windows server on host 2)
- 192.168.1.163 (phy NIC)
CANNOT PING
- 192.168.1.30 (esx host 1)
- 192.168.1.7 (vcenter on host 1)
Windows Server 2008 VM running on ESX Host 2
CAN PING:
- 192.168.1.1 (gateway)
- 192.168.1.3 (AD-DS/DNS)
- 192.168.1.4 (AD-DS/DNS)
- 192.168.1.31 (Host 2)
- 192.168.1.9 (self)
- 192.168.1.7 (vcenter on host 1) (yes for some reason it can ping the VM on Host 1 but not host 1)
- 192.168.1.163 (phy NIC)
CANNOT PING
- 192.168.1.30 (esx host 1)
My Physical Host
CAN PING Everything
Trouble shooting steps:
- I have firewalls disabled on Phy host and both Windows Server VMs
- I am not running VLANs
- I am running standard switches with VM network, Management Network
- I have set the accept promisscous mode on both vswitches, the managment network and the vm network
There must be something I am missing at the host level to allow these guys to communicate. Please help, 2nd rebuild of this lab and I am ready to stick something sharp in my eye...well maybe even somethng dull.
Thanks
Mike
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