Hi,
This may be a stupid question but I can't quite figure out the answer so I might as well ask. I have two physical ESXi hosts in my lab and for various reasons would like to eliminate the physical switch between them but still retain full vSphere functionality (vMotion, HA, DRS etc). Is there a virtual switch/repeater product that I can buy/use (deployed on both ESXi hosts in a HA configuration) that can give me this functionality? I would then use pNIC ports on each ESXi host to talk to each other and additional pNICs as switchports to the outside world. i.e. could I do this with some sort of multi-Vyatta configuration? NSX? Need multi-cast support also.
Thanks for your help!