Setup private network across different hosts

[Olston]

we have 4 hosts and we want to setup a heartbeat connection between two VM's but these VM's will be residing on different hosts. We currently just setup a virtual switch with no nic but this only works if the two VM's resides on the same host. We would like to place the VM's on different host. Is there a simple way of doing this?

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

in this case you - obviously - need a physical connection. This can be achieved by either adding an uplink to the current vSwitch or - if you have VLANs in place - you could just create a new port group with the appropriate VLAN-ID for the heartbeats on an existing vSwitch.

It may also depend on the heartbeat requirements which solution you choose.

André

[Olston]

if we add an uplink to the vswitch, this will put it on the public network which we do not want.

[a_p_]

What kind of physical hardware (switches) do you have? Do they support VLANs?

Unless you are not able to separate traffic on the switches, you may try whether a cross-over cable can do the job.

André

[rickardnobel]

Does the VM do their internal heartbeat on a secondary vNIC attached to them?

I agree with A.P. that you should be able to solve this with just configure a new VLAN on your physical switch and then create a new portgroup with this VLAN and bind to the VMs heartbeat vNIC.