VLAN Trunks

[Felix001]

Can someone confirm how you create a VLAN trunk in ESX ?

What I have is various VMs all in there own port groups (with seperate VLAN IDs) all on the same virtual switch. I need for these to communicate out to my switches trunk port through a physical interface.

Thanks in advance.

[AntonVZhbankov]

There is no need to configure trunk on ESX level. Just assign VLAN IDs to corresponding portgroups on vSwitch.

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[Felix001]

I found the issue. Thanks :

[depping]

promiscuous mode is definitely NOT the same as a trunk port. keep in mind to revert this when done sniffing as you just created a huge security breach.

Duncan

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[Felix001]

Yep Im aware that a trunk port and promisc are different but you still need promis enabled to allow the sniffing of all unicast traffic on the vswitch.