Share vlans on a guest from different esxi hosts

[aneshpk]

I have 2 esxi hosts..one in a secure zone and one in our internal zone, both have access to different vlans eg 1123 and 3345 ..i want a deploy a guest which can consume both the vlans from different hosts..is this possible ?

[SureshKumarMuth]

To my understanding, to have multiple IPs of different VLANs your VM should be having more than one vnics and though we configure the IPs inside guest, at one point in time a VM can be a part of only one ESXi , unless the uplink pass the VLAN traffic the VM cannot communicate via that VLAN. So consuming VLANs from two different host by a single VM is not possible.

[aneshpk]

Can we trunk the vlans that need to be consumed on guests, on the uplink swicthes to which the different esxi hosts are connected to?

[SureshKumarMuth · Accepted solution]

Yes, creating trunk ports will work. But you said one host in secure zone, so generally network team wont club DMZ with normal zone... Still it is possible by trunk.

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