ESXi configuration question
Hello all!
I'm new to the whole VM movement and have been doing some testing and wanted to know on a configuration issue. I have ESXi 4.0 installed on a host machine. The host machine has four built-in nics. When connecting nic1 in the switch, the host machine gets a ip address from the dhcp server. I'm all good up until here. On the host I can set an static ip address. If the host gets an ip of 192.168.1.10 from dhcp, should I set the host static ip to what? Something like 192.168.2.10? I've read something about have the "management console" on a different subnet. What nic is assigned to the management console and do I need a management console nic if I do not intend to use vSphere?
Assuming I do set the host ip to 192.168.2.10, and I create a VM of W3K to test, do I connect nic2 and give the VM-W3K an ip address of 192.168.1.x on nic1 or nic2? How do I assign a VM to a physical nic?
Am I making any sense?
Thanks for your patience.
I'm new to the whole VM movement and have been doing some testing and wanted to know on a configuration issue. I have ESXi 4.0 installed on a host machine. The host machine has four built-in nics. When connecting nic1 in the switch, the host machine gets a ip address from the dhcp server. I'm all good up until here. On the host I can set an static ip address. If the host gets an ip of 192.168.1.10 from dhcp, should I set the host static ip to what? Something like 192.168.2.10? I've read something about have the "management console" on a different subnet. What nic is assigned to the management console and do I need a management console nic if I do not intend to use vSphere?
Assuming I do set the host ip to 192.168.2.10, and I create a VM of W3K to test, do I connect nic2 and give the VM-W3K an ip address of 192.168.1.x on nic1 or nic2? How do I assign a VM to a physical nic?
Am I making any sense?
Thanks for your patience.
MikeLogsdon
You can open virtual network settings assign the physical adapter to say vmnet02 then on the actually virtual machine choose vmnet02 as the adapter.
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After reading both responses and viewing the VMware webinar, I believe your response had more detail and followed true to the webinar demo.
Thanks.
Thanks.