Hi Guys,
Just trying to to figure out how to get traffic routed between an existing physical subnet and a virtual subnet.
The physical is 192.168.2.0/24. My virtual is 192.168.200.0/24. I have VM's in both groups.
The default gateway on my esxi host is set to 192.168.2.2 (manageable).
Do I need to add a static route on the cisco to route 192.168.200.0 subnet traffic or can I get the vmkernel to do the routing for me? If so, how exactly and where exactly do I do it. I tried esxcfg-route -a on the esxi host, but I didn't have much luck with the results (perhaps an incorrect configuration on my end - you will see in the routing table below).
Sorry - I am a first timer, trying my best to digest it all - the whole networking implementation has been the hardest to grasp.
Servers 2.x - 192.168.2.0/24 (physical subnet)
Servers 200.x - 192.168.200.0/24 (virtual subnet)
| Switch Name | Num Ports | Used Ports | Configured Ports | MTU | Uplinks | ||||
| vSwitch0 | 128 | 10 | 128 | 1500 | vmnic0,vmnic6 | ||||
| PortGroup Name | VLAN ID | Used Ports | Uplinks | ||||||
| Servers - 200.x | 0 | 2 | vmnic0,vmnic6 | ||||||
| Servers - 2.x | 0 | 2 | vmnic0,vmnic6 | ||||||
| Management Network | 0 | 1 | vmnic6 | ||||||
| VMkernel Routes: | |||||||||
| Network | Netmask | Gateway | Interface | ||||||
| 192.168.2.0 | 255.255.255.0 | Local Subnet | vmk0 | ||||||
| 192.168.200.0 | 255.255.255.0 | 192.168.2.2 | vmk0 | <- I added this route (do I need this or can vmkernel handle the routing?) | |||||
| default | 0.0.0.0 | 192.168.2.2 | vmk0 | ||||||
Thanks Guys. My head is just about to explode, so I've turned to the forum. Be researching this for the last two day without any definitive answers.