VLAN trunk from Virtual host to Virtual Switch?

[TwinTurboRob]

ESX 5.5

I have a virtual host which has an interface with 5 VLANS tagged on it.

I want to plug this virtual NIC into a VSWITCH that has these 5 VLANS on it.

I can't seem o get it to work and not sure if it is even technically supported?

No physical switch is being used.

Any Ideas?

[daphnissov]

I'm having trouble following what you're describing. You have a vSS with five different VM port groups all with different VLAN IDs? And you want to connect a VM to all five port groups simultaneously? Can you clarify, please?

[a_p_]

What you are looking for is called Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT), and can be done by setting the port group's VLAN-ID to 4095.

André

[TwinTurboRob]

Lets clarify.

The VM is a virtual firewall that is running a copy of the Production firewall config.

On the Firewall Interface E0/10 has tagged VLANS.

For testing we want a

Virtual Firewall with interface E/10, connected to Virtual Switch on a Port Group with Tag [4095] and also on the V-Switch  4 separate Port Groups on with VLAN Tags for the other networks to which virtual machines will connect.

Despite trying 4095 it does not seem to work.

[TwinTurboRob]

OK...

Sorted...

Enable Promiscuous mode "ACCEPT" on the vswitch Trunk.

[TwinTurboRob · Accepted solution]

Sorry...

Added Forged Transmit as well.

[daphnissov]

Is your question answered now?