Hi Folks, I am have a requirement for which I am not able to find any specific documentation. Requirement =========== The Server on which I am installing Vmware ESXi 5.1 has 5 Physical N...
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Hi Folks, I am have a requirement for which I am not able to find any specific documentation. Requirement =========== The Server on which I am installing Vmware ESXi 5.1 has 5 Physical NICs. I would like to create just 5 Windows 7 Virtual Machines and assign one NIC to each Windows 7 VM on the ESX server. Basically what i am looking for is to associate a physical NIC with a Virtual Machine. I understand this can be done. I am going to connect each Physical NIC to a L2 Switch (Cisco) on a switchport. Now the specific requirement here is, when I disable my NIC from my Windows 7 interfaces page the line protocol on the switchport should go down and vice versa, when I shutdown the switchport on the switch, the NIC on Windows 7 VM should say "not connected". I would like to know if this is possible in Vmware ESXi version 5.1. I hope the requirement is clear, if not please feel free to respond and i'll put in some more details. Regards, Zubair
