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VmwareESXi Vlans, Cisco devices and broadcast making the things odd

I'm having problem for some days trying to make a correct configuration Right now I have a Cisco Catalyst switch, a Cisco Router 2811 and a VMware ESXi node with 4-8 VM (Linux,BSD, Windows), each ...
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Assigning reserved DHCP addresses from multiple subnets/scopes to VMs on a single ESXi host

I assume this is possible by connecting one of the NICs to a VLAN from each subnet, or perhaps the helper IP takes care of this organically, but my question is, with one single ESXi host, and 3 VMs on ...
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Multiple VLAN on one switch port

I have a HP ProCurve 1810G-8 which I currently use as a normal switch between 3 servers and a firewall. 2 of the servers are ESXi hosts, and one is a Nexentastor box with 2 iSCSI target LUNs. As the ...
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Cisco SG200 vlan issue in ESXi VSA cluster

I have three Cisco SG200-26 switches, and I also have two ESXi hosts that I have connected like shown in the below "best practice" map by VMware: ...
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VLAN's in ESXi - require seperate vswitches?

I am trying to configure two separate vlans in ESXi. Right now I have two vlan's set up on a single vswitch in separate port groups (one for vlan 100, one for vlan 110). None of the ports connected to ...
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Setting up VLAN on Win Server 2008 VMware guest

We've a Windows Server 2008 host on VMware ESXi 4 and want to isolate it from the rest of the network. That is, I want no traffic from the Windows Server 2008 to be allowed on the normal network. I ...
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VLAN trunk port not working with ESXi 5

I just purchased my first VLAN-capable switch (SLM2008T-NA), and I tried to configure my first vlan on it. However, I am not able to make my trunk port work with ESXi 5. Here is my current setup: ...
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Handling PVLANs

In a multi tenant switch environment, standard practice is to separate tenants by VLANs. If these tenants need to be on the same address space for any reason, PVLANs are implemented to add separation ...
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Add a NEW VM on seperate Subnet

I want to add a new 2008R2 vm to my network. This will be a seperate domain controller for a seperate VLAN'ed off office. This VLAN (20) is all squared away on the switches. I have an office with 3 ...
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Separate virtual switches or just VLAN separation for isolated networks?

I am building a small setup of ESX5 servers. There will be different apps running for different companies on them. Each company has a VM that has one Internet facing vNIC and one vNIC facing to this ...
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Design Critique Needed ( VLAN & ESXi )

So this is my new "project" which consists of tearing down our legacy network and re-doing it correctly. As of now it is a mess. Production is a hogpoge of legacy servers that should have been put to ...
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Multiple VLAN's and User Group Confusion

Am deploying and designing a new network for our sourly damaged design. I have never designed a network from the ground up, by my self. The simple run down is this : VLAN 1 - Production at the ...
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Wire VMWare Player NIC to a VLAN in Ubuntu 8.04.3

I've got VMWare Player 2.5.x installed on a Ubuntu 8.04.3 host running CentOS 5.3 running Cobbler. VMWare Player has two NICs (I actually took this image from an ESXi image, converted it to Player 2.x ...