Accepted Solutions
How are your port groups in the virtual ESXi setup? Are you applying VLAN tags to them are you leaving it in "native" mode (no VLAN ID defined)? If you want your virtual ESXi to do the tagging, then you need to attach it to a port group on the physical ESXi host which has VLAN type = VLAN Trunking, and select the VLAN range to trunk to the guest. The following screenshot shows this setup for a port group on the physical ESXi host.
This should pass through all traffic without modifying tags and allow your virtual ESXi host to apply tags. You then need to assign a nic from your virtual ESXi VM to this VLAN trunking port as an uplink to a vSwitch and set your VLAN on that port group within the virtual ESXi environment.
If you go "native" you just attach the nic on the virtual ESXi to a pre-existing VLAN-backed port group on your physical ESXi host. Don't apply any VLAN ID to the port group on the virtual ESXi host. But the draw back is that the uplink can only be used for communication on that single VLAN, so you would have to create a separate vSwitch for each different port group you want to have access.
Easiest setup is to leave it in native mode and simply assign multiple NICs for each VLAN, but is not flexible and doesn't expose the full capability and purpose of ESXi.
Does either of these methods match how you have your networking configured?
How are your port groups in the virtual ESXi setup? Are you applying VLAN tags to them are you leaving it in "native" mode (no VLAN ID defined)? If you want your virtual ESXi to do the tagging, then you need to attach it to a port group on the physical ESXi host which has VLAN type = VLAN Trunking, and select the VLAN range to trunk to the guest. The following screenshot shows this setup for a port group on the physical ESXi host.
This should pass through all traffic without modifying tags and allow your virtual ESXi host to apply tags. You then need to assign a nic from your virtual ESXi VM to this VLAN trunking port as an uplink to a vSwitch and set your VLAN on that port group within the virtual ESXi environment.
If you go "native" you just attach the nic on the virtual ESXi to a pre-existing VLAN-backed port group on your physical ESXi host. Don't apply any VLAN ID to the port group on the virtual ESXi host. But the draw back is that the uplink can only be used for communication on that single VLAN, so you would have to create a separate vSwitch for each different port group you want to have access.
Easiest setup is to leave it in native mode and simply assign multiple NICs for each VLAN, but is not flexible and doesn't expose the full capability and purpose of ESXi.
Does either of these methods match how you have your networking configured?
