Home lab help

[kappyninewood]

Setting up vSphere\ View lab and need some help.  I bought a 1U server and a small netgear FS108 switch and a workstation to manage everything. I  installed ESXi on the server and gave it the same private IP range of 10.0.*.* that my comcast modem uses for my wireless dhcp range for all my devices.    My question is this, should I run a cat 5 cable from my ESXi host to one of the ports in my cable modem? What do other folks do? When building the ESXi host what IP address should I give it for DNS?

[amithb · Accepted solution]

Just to clarify, do you have a cable modem and a wireless router in your setup or are the both a single device?

If you need internet access for the VMs that resides inside your ESXi host, then you need to run a cable from the host to your modem.