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stimko
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‎11-29-2009 02:47 PM

two esxi hosts w/vyatta

can I do this sharing the same public subnet that is on a vSwitch (behind vyatta on host1)?

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stimko
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‎11-30-2009 06:15 AM

basicaly I need to connect two vSwitches from 2 seperate esxi hosts...

Can I do this with essentials?

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stimko
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‎11-30-2009 08:45 AM

will essentials support this config:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=100407...

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stimko
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‎12-01-2009 01:24 PM

so far I'm under the impression I have two options..

1. nat my public ips into private ips that are accessible to both hosts. I see many cons to this method.

2. assign a vSwitch portgroup on each host into a separate nic into a physical switch

3. use 802.1q (vlan trunking) and do same as #2 on 1 nic..

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stimko
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‎12-02-2009 01:31 PM

Got this working using just essentials and a basic vSwitch with vlan trunking on seperate port groups.. Completely virtual from the f/w down on multiple redundant esxi host..

Next hurdle, Citrix Netscaler VPX...

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SteveDavidson
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‎07-31-2010 10:40 AM

Are you out there? Can you expand a bit on how you got your two esxi hosts configured with one vyatta? I would be interested as I have deployed one esxi host with a virtual vyatta machine and several other vms. Now I want to add a second esxi host. Network configuration is still a bit of a black box for me. Learning, but the climb is steep. Can you share network config settings and maybe network graph from each of your esxi hosts?

Thanks.....

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