Everything was what you described, other than the VLAN 4095 which I had to do go and do.
For anybody else reading this who doesn't know how to do it, in order to get to the VLAN 4095, you must:
- Log on to the Esxhi host (with the Vsphere client)
- Select the Esxi host.
- Go to the 'Configuration' tab on the right.
- Select 'Networking' on the left hand column and then click on the 'Properties'.
- Select 'Management Network' and click 'Edit'.
- Where it says 'VLAN ID', use the dropdown to select '4095 (ALL)' and click OK.
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
So it's working now?
and make sure your VMs are also using the Virtual Machine Network 4095 (ALL).
You should find then if you allocate a VM with an IP Address of 192.168.1.x it should be on the same network, from what I recall, there is someting odd with DHCP, so maybe do not expect DHCP from your MAIN LAN to passthrough twice to the nested VMs!
Yashy
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It's not working sadly:(.
I've selected the 'VM Network' to 4095 (ALL).
I've set the IP address of the VM itself with a static IP and a gateway of my router.
When you said 'make sure your VM's are also using the Virtual Machine Network 4095 (ALL)', did you mean the setting that I've mentioned in the second line above?
Because on the Workstation 8, there isn't any place I can see where I can select the VM's to be on the 4095 (ALL)?
Il reduce cpus..hehe.
The esxi host gets its IP via dhcp. And it is on the same network as Workstation on the LAN. The VM however is unable to get dhcp.
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
Just had another thought ALSO SET THE vSwitch to
ALLOW Promiscious Mode: Accept, either on the vSwitch or Virtual Machine Network.
Yashy
ASKER
I tried this also and still doesn't work. I set it to Accept.
The weird thing is that when I add a static IP to the VM, it still sees it as an Unindentified Network. Even if it didn't have internet access, I'd expect the IP address added to make the VM part of an identified network.
Also, I've taken a screenshot for you of something else. In the Vswitch properties, the 'networks' only shows as the IP address range of my own PC (192.168.1.9). Is that correct? Vmware-setting.jpg
For anybody else reading this who doesn't know how to do it, in order to get to the VLAN 4095, you must:
- Log on to the Esxhi host (with the Vsphere client)
- Select the Esxi host.
- Go to the 'Configuration' tab on the right.
- Select 'Networking' on the left hand column and then click on the 'Properties'.
- Select 'Management Network' and click 'Edit'.
- Where it says 'VLAN ID', use the dropdown to select '4095 (ALL)' and click OK.