This is my first time on the Forum and I’m hoping someone can help me understand better. I have been goolgeing this for a while now and can’t find a straight answer. Hopefully I am asking this question in the right place.
I have built an isolated vLAN on one of my ESXi hosts with 2 Windows 2008 servers and 2 Windows 7 VMs. Everything is working as expected. One of the servers is my Domain Controller and handles AD, DHCP, DNS, ect.
I am using vSphere 5.1 Enterprise and I have the same exact network settings in all three of my hosts.
vSwitch0 is used for Management traffic (vmKernal) and has one physical adapter assigned to it: vmnic0
vSwitch1 is used for VMs and has the VLAN ID set to 101. It has the only other physical adapter assigned to it: vmnic1
It appears to me that even though the vLAN is configured the same on all three hosts, they are active like separate vLANs (isolated within their own hosts) and unable to see or communicate with each other. Am I missing a setting somewhere that would allow them to communicate?
I looked into using a Distributed switch but apparently I don’t have the appropriate license for that functionality and I'm not certain it work either.
Any suggestions?
Thanks