Hello,
I have a dual-host environment which will run three web-servers and one SQL-server and I want a dedicated virtual network for the SQL traffic (meaning the virtual machines will have two network connections).
The scenario:
I have two ESXI 5.5 Clients hosted on 385p GEN8 Machines, each ESXI have a network card with 4 NICS.
Two of the NIC:s have TP cables going directly between the hosts, I have done this in an attempt to create a virtual network between (Which I'm calling Datanet).
In Vsphere client I am getting 1000 mbit link in the networking tab, so far so good. But when I attempt to make virtual adapters from this vswitch they are unable to contact each other.
I have tested on two virtual machines running Windows 2012, both are getting a link but they can't talk to each other.
What I want to achieve: Fast dedicated secondary network so that I can direct SQL traffic over that network.
Manual ethernet settings in windows:
VM machine 1 gets IP 10.12.12.2, subnet mask 255.255.255.240
VM Machine 2 gets IP 10.12.12.3 subnet mask 255.255.255.240
Neither gets a gateway since this is a secondary network.
The machines are unable to ping each other.
Why is this, what am I doing wrong and is what I'm hoping to achieve possible? Without VMware its quite common to have TP-cables between the SQL Server and the Web server, I want to accomplish this here in VMWare.
Best regards,
Joakim