Hi All,
Sorry if this question's been asked a million times but, as a newbie to ESXi, I'm having a few problems configuring my virtual network. Any pointers in the right direction or links to beginners' guides would be gratefully accepted.
Basically at the moment I have Win 2K8 R2 x64 and Win 7 x64 VMs set up on my ESXi server. The 2k8 is a DC on my existing external domain. It is also a DHCP and DNS server (I'll get around to RRAS later). It has 2 vNICs. The first (wan) adapter is getting an ip address off my broadband router and is therefore fine (I'll deal with public IP addresses later). The second is the lan/vlan interface and is configured with a static ip, 192.168.20.5, which is the dns server address and in the ip subnet (192.168.20.x) served by DHCP . Ideally I want to connect this to a physical NIC for the physical internal network as well as a virtual internal network which vms in the same domain can connect to.
The Win7 vm has one vNIC and at the present isn't getting an address. It is configured on VM2 as is the internal vNIC of the DC.
At a later date I also intend to add a second separate domain and DC with the same setup (we run two businesses from the same site). There cannot be any connection between the two. The physical aspect of this is pretty straighforward. Would it merely be a case of extra physical NICs and duplicating the setup for the first domain?
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks in advance.
Graeme