Hello everyone. I am evaluating ESXi 5 in this fashion:
Host machine: Fedora 16 x64 running Workstation 8
ESXi 5 installed inside Workstation 8
Ubuntu 10.04 VM installed in the ESXi 5
Windows 2008 Standard Server VM inside Workstation 8 to run vSphere
I have been trying my hardest to get my nested ESXi vm's to get outgoing internet access and I cant seem to be able to, atleast efficiently. The best I think I have been able to get is the VM seems to be accessing the internet out from the management network, even though I have the VMNetwork set up on another NIC.
This is my ESXI VM configuration:
2 NIC both in NAT mode
1st NIC has a static IP and is attached to my management network
2nd NIC is not attached to management network, it is on its own vSwitch, Ubuntu VM is in that second vSwitch.
Like I said, even though Ubuntu is on that second switch, I am seeing no traffic through the second NIC.
I would really appreciate any help I can get on this issue, I love VMWare and its products and I would like to learn about ESXi as much as I can before I build a physical server.