Hi all,
I have been searching the interwebs but haven't been able to find much regarding this issue...
We are currently in the process of setting up a VMware environment to be able to sell IaaS services to our private network customers. One of the things our customers might require is to convert physical (or non-VMware virtual) machines on the customer network and bring them into our VMware environment. I'm trying to avoid the need to open firewall ports between our customers network and our internal network for their virtual machines to be able to talk to our vCenter and ESXi infrastructure. One of the ideas that my network engineering team suggested was to set up some sort of public NAT-ing between our customer's private network and our VMware infrastructure.
With this, we are hoping to avoid two things: 1) opening firewall ports between the customer's network and our own network; and 2) not having any IP overlap between our two networks.
Is this something that is possible to do? Has anyone tried this?
Thanks,
Dave