Hi,
I'm trying to do something that I'm not sure if I can do without vSphere server,
I have ESXi 6.5 without vSphere (standard built-in web-client only) and I want to create an internal network (separate vSwitch) that has traffic isolated from any physical NICs
How do I do this? I created a separate vSwitch called Internal Network but I don't see any way to add a vNIC in my VM that will communicate on this switch (the only ones that come up in the VM settings are ones that are connected to physical adapters)
I thought the answer might lie in the VMKernel NICs, so I created one of those with standard IPv4 and 6 topology and gave it a separate IP address and MTU of 9000, and attached it to "Internal Network" vSwitch. Still don't see any mention of "internal network" vSwitch in the VM settings.
The end result I am trying to achieve is having a Synology Diskstation VM serving an NFS share to ESXi. I want it to avoid interfering with traffic on my physical adapters. Is this idea convoluted in some way? I know people have Napp-it and FreeNAS VMs serving disk arrays for storage of VMs to ESXi internally - what am I missing?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Avery
I'm trying to do something that I'm not sure if I can do without vSphere server,
I have ESXi 6.5 without vSphere (standard built-in web-client only) and I want to create an internal network (separate vSwitch) that has traffic isolated from any physical NICs
How do I do this? I created a separate vSwitch called Internal Network but I don't see any way to add a vNIC in my VM that will communicate on this switch (the only ones that come up in the VM settings are ones that are connected to physical adapters)
I thought the answer might lie in the VMKernel NICs, so I created one of those with standard IPv4 and 6 topology and gave it a separate IP address and MTU of 9000, and attached it to "Internal Network" vSwitch. Still don't see any mention of "internal network" vSwitch in the VM settings.
The end result I am trying to achieve is having a Synology Diskstation VM serving an NFS share to ESXi. I want it to avoid interfering with traffic on my physical adapters. Is this idea convoluted in some way? I know people have Napp-it and FreeNAS VMs serving disk arrays for storage of VMs to ESXi internally - what am I missing?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Avery