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YOu can do this a few different ways. <br />
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Configure the VLAN on the switch and setup the physical switch as a trunk. &nbsp;Configure the vswitch with the physical port on the vswitch as VM Network and create a port group with the ID of the VLAN. &nbsp;Now vmware will setup the physical nic as a trunk port and will only allow that vlan to talk to the port group.<br />
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You can create several port groups if you will have several VLANs on the ESXi server. &nbsp;For instance one port group for VLAN 100, one port group for VLAN 101.<br />
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The second nic I would use for service console so that you could always get into the ESXi host and manage it..
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YOu can do this a few different ways.

Configure the VLAN on the switch and setup the physical switch as a trunk.  Configure the vswitch with the physical port on the vswitch as VM Network and create a port group with the ID of the VLAN.  Now vmware will setup the physical nic as a trunk port and will only allow that vlan to talk to the port group.

You can create several port groups if you will have several VLANs on the ESXi server.  For instance one port group for VLAN 100, one port group for VLAN 101.

The second nic I would use for service console so that you could always get into the ESXi host and manage it..

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Just to add what paul described above, when you create the VM, assign the vNIC to the desired port group<br />
As each port group is different vlan, ensure to assign to the correct port group
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Just to add what paul described above, when you create the VM, assign the vNIC to the desired port group
As each port group is different vlan, ensure to assign to the correct port group

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Hi,<br />
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When creating the VLans would I need the same Vlans on the switch?
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Hi,

When creating the VLans would I need the same Vlans on the switch?

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Hi,<br />
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I have got an ESXi server that has got two NICs connected to my LAN.<br />
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I want to create a Virtual VLAN so that one of the VM Guests is on its own network and can only communicate with the internet and nothing else.<br />
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How do I achieve this?<br />
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Thanks
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Hi,

I have got an ESXi server that has got two NICs connected to my LAN.

I want to create a Virtual VLAN so that one of the VM Guests is on its own network and can only communicate with the internet and nothing else.

How do I achieve this?

Thanks

ESXi - Virtual VLAN Help

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.