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Hmm... how do I define a new network on the ESX server?<br />
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Hmm... how do I define a new network on the ESX server?



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just create a virtual switch and don not connect it to a physical nic. &nbsp;Add a nic to the machines you want to and then add it to that vswitch.
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just create a virtual switch and don not connect it to a physical nic.  Add a nic to the machines you want to and then add it to that vswitch.

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I'm used to VMWare Workstation and using VM NAT to fence off my WinXP VM image and my Win2003 VM image from the rest of the world.<br />
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Now I'm trying to do the same thing with ESX and I'm lost. I figured out that you can't configure ESX to NAT a VM image, but I gather it's possible to do, but so far I failed to understand all the results I came across with Google.<br />
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Would anyone be able to explain how to NAT my workstation and server VM image with ESX server?<br />
Preferably in a manner a dummy like me can understand it?<br />
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I'm used to VMWare Workstation and using VM NAT to fence off my WinXP VM image and my Win2003 VM image from the rest of the world.

Now I'm trying to do the same thing with ESX and I'm lost. I figured out that you can't configure ESX to NAT a VM image, but I gather it's possible to do, but so far I failed to understand all the results I came across with Google.

Would anyone be able to explain how to NAT my workstation and server VM image with ESX server?
Preferably in a manner a dummy like me can understand it?



How to configure NAT on a virtual machine on an ESX server?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.