Lesson 7/9
ESXi: virtual networks, vSwitches and port groupsA look at networking on ESXi: creating vSwitches, managing port groups, network isolation and redundancy. A practical demonstration with Windows VMs and live connectivity tests.
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0:03 Introduction to ESXi networking and vSwitches 0:24 A look at the VM Network port group 0:47 Reaching the ESXi web interface 1:05 Looking at the management network, 172.16.3.61 1:28 Renaming VM Network to Prod VLAN 0 2:03 What the rename does to the existing VMs 2:30 Checking connectivity on Win1 and Win2 3:13 Configuring the Windows firewall for ICMP 4:15 Ping tests between VMs on the same network 4:35 Creating the preprod port group 5:10 Moving a VM between port groups 5:42 Switching Win1 and Win2 over to preprod 6:18 Testing isolation with the same VLAN 6:33 Creating a new vSwitch for DR 7:22 Promiscuous mode and the security settings 7:45 Adding the VM DR port group 8:01 Moving VM2 to the DR vSwitch 8:18 Network isolation, and connectivity lost 8:37 Reading the network topology diagram 9:02 Testing internet access from Win1 9:31 Talking to the ESXi management network 10:11 Moving Win1 to the DR vSwitch 10:48 DHCP lost, and setting the IP by hand 11:23 Assigning the static IP 172.16.3.111 11:52 Assigning the static IP 172.16.3.112 12:12 Checking the isolated VMs can talk to each other 12:38 Trying to reach the internet with no gateway 13:00 Shutting ESXi down to add a card 13:12 Adding a second physical network card 13:42 Reconnecting to the ESXi web interface 14:01 Adding vmnic1 as an uplink 14:27 Building network redundancy with two cards 14:55 How several physical cards are handled 15:28 The final network topology diagram 16:06 Reconfiguring DHCP with the physical card 16:19 The principle of network redundancy on ESXi 16:49 Restarting the VMs and the final tests 17:04 Moving Win2 back to preprod 17:36 Traffic between VLANs on the same segments
