As we all know, VMware View requires Active Directory to be implemented.
I have a test project for VMware View to implement.
We are on a Novell Infrastructure.
There are DC's in the production network but due to IT policies, we cannot use those in any way.
Plus, to help with the situation, I cannot create a new DC on the production network to prevent any communications between that DC and production DC's.
We have a back internal LAN on a 192.168.X.X range.
So I was wondering if I could proceed in the following way? Here is a little diagram of the vDistributed Stiches that I created.
Production 10.8.X.X vDistributed Switch
vcenter (NIC1) --------------------------------|
view connection server (NIC1) ----------|
vm workstation1 (NIC1) -------------------|
vm workstation2 (NIC1) -------------------|-------------Production network Host NIC 1 on 10.8.X.X
vm workstation3 (NIC1) -------------------|-------------Production network Host NIC 2 on 10.8.X.X
vm workstation4 (NIC1) -------------------|-------------Production network Host NIC 3 on 10.8.X.X
vm workstation5 (NIC1) -------------------|
vm workstation6 (NIC1) -------------------|
Vkernel Management ----------------------|
Development 192.168.X.X vDistributed Switch
DC (NIC1) -------------------------------------|
vcenter (NIC2) -------------------------------|
view connection server (NIC2) ---------|
vm workstation1 (NIC2) ------------------|
vm workstation2 (NIC2) ------------------|-------------Development network Host NIC 4 on 192.168.X.X
vm workstation3 (NIC2) ------------------|-------------Development network Host NIC 5 on 192.168.X.X
vm workstation4 (NIC2) ------------------|
vm workstation5 (NIC2) ------------------|
vm workstation6 (NIC2) ------------------|
Vkernel vMotion ----------------------------|
The worry would be that if VM's have two NICs that they could route information from the DC of the DEV LAN to the PROD WAN.
I would appreciate any input on this possibility or on how we could implement VMware View with the requirement of Active Directory without having this Active Directory on the PROD WAN??
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
