I'm trying to build a nested ESX home lab with VMware Workstation on my laptop. I want the VMs to be on a private network (10.0.1.x) and need to connect them to a NAS on my home network (192.168.1.x) for iSCSI storage to the ESX hosts.
Home Network:
192.168.1.1 - Home Router
192.168.1.100 - NAS
Private Network:
10.0.1.10 - DC
10.0.1.20 - vCenter Server
10.0.1.21 - ESX1
Ideally, I'd like to route the internal VM network traffic to a VM with NICs to both networks acting as a router instead of having 2x NICs on each VM. I've tried using a VM with RRAS but still unable to get routing between the networks.
Any ideas?
Hi,
Check out my post where I explained how to do it using Vyatta.
http://wojcieh.net/vyatta-router-running-on-vmware-workstation-part-1/
http://wojcieh.net/vyatta-router-running-on-vmware-workstation-part-2-dns-firewall-and-nat/
You can try multiple IP address to your adapter. Then you can connect both network when you need. No need to change IP route. Thanks
Thanks I was hoping to do this by a simpler method with Microsoft technology. Alternatively, do you know if there is a cisco switch/router vm appliance which could accomplish this?
Thanks but as mentioned I don't want to have multiple NICs. I want it to be real world as possible. I will have nested ESX hosts which will always need connectivity to the NAS so that won't work.