(solved) HP, ESXI, VLANS, and Trunks. please help.

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Reactor4Tech

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Oct 20, 2021
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Hi sorry if I'm asking this in the wrong spot but after trying for a few days I figured I would seek help.

I'm new to vlans so bare with me. I know how they work (I think) in theory but im struggling to actually configure the switch,

anyway.

What I have is:

1 HP procurve 2910al 24 port
2 Physical machines running ESXI 6.7


What I want (I think) is as follows:

I want port 1-6 on the switch to ingress and tag on vlan 250, and I want them to egress vlan 250 frames as untagged. I want these to be WAN and behave like a l2 switch. so that some one may plug their own router into port 2-6 and be on their own network.

I want port 7 to trunk vlan 250, vlan 10, and vlan 20.
I want port 8-10 to trunk vlan 10 and vlan 20,
I want port 20 to ingress vlan 10 and egress untagged.

Port 1 will be plugged into the ISP's Modem/ONT whatever
Port 2-6 so I can plug a home router in and have WAN
Esxi host 1 will be on port 7 and host gateways, so it needs WAN
Esxi host 2 will be on port 8 so it does not need WAN
port 9,10 are incase I add 2 more hosts (probably wont).
port 20 is so I can plug a machine in for MGT

AFAIK I have ESXI set up correctly.
I have port groups with the following Tags.

pgWAN_VLAN250
pgTLAN_VLAN20
pgMGT_VLAN10
pgMGTvmk_VLAN10

attached to a vswitch with an uplink on a PCI NIC

I realize this set up is pretty scuffed but additional hardware is not an option ATM

My issue is that I don't know how to get this to actually function on the switch, specifically the 2910al

Thanks