I am trying to add a VMware ESXi 6.5 host with 3 virtual machines to our network and I am having an issue with the routing.
The network is divided up into several vLans. the two I am using are vlan100 for servers and vlan200 for desktops. There is route between vLan100 and vLan200. Machines on one can see machines on the other.
We are using layer 2 switches and a layer 3 router.
vLan 100 is configured with port 1 tagged and attached to the router. Ports 2-24 are untagged. PVID is set to 100 on all ports
vLan 200 is configued with port 25 tagged and attached to the router. Ports 26-48 are untagged. PVID is set to 200 on all ports
Routes have been added to the router to pass traffic between vLan100 and vLan200
Workstations are all connected to vLan 200 and our servers are connected to vLan100. Using all physical machines i have no issues and everything works fine. I wanted to add a VMware ESXi server on which I have configured 3 servers. I attached it to port 15 and as able to ping it from computers connected to vLan100 but not from vLan200. I tagged port 15 and added vLan100 to the ESXi host with the same results.
How do I get the workstations on vLan200 to communicate the virtual machines on my ESXi host?![Network layout summary]()
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The network is divided up into several vLans. the two I am using are vlan100 for servers and vlan200 for desktops. There is route between vLan100 and vLan200. Machines on one can see machines on the other.
We are using layer 2 switches and a layer 3 router.
vLan 100 is configured with port 1 tagged and attached to the router. Ports 2-24 are untagged. PVID is set to 100 on all ports
vLan 200 is configued with port 25 tagged and attached to the router. Ports 26-48 are untagged. PVID is set to 200 on all ports
Routes have been added to the router to pass traffic between vLan100 and vLan200
Workstations are all connected to vLan 200 and our servers are connected to vLan100. Using all physical machines i have no issues and everything works fine. I wanted to add a VMware ESXi server on which I have configured 3 servers. I attached it to port 15 and as able to ping it from computers connected to vLan100 but not from vLan200. I tagged port 15 and added vLan100 to the ESXi host with the same results.
How do I get the workstations on vLan200 to communicate the virtual machines on my ESXi host?
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