Topic: SME on ESXi, how to interface with ESXi?

[psoren]

Hi,

I have Vmware ESXi 5 with SME7.5 installed. By default the Vmware management interface is on the network for WAN. This means it takes the IP i get from the ISP and i only have one. So how is the way to do this?

Can i rely on having the interface on the switch i have in ESXi for the LAN ? It will the get the IP from SME dhcp, but what if SME is down?

I have used SME for many years, but ESXi is new to me.

Any good advice out there?

Per

[daniel]

I created a sudo how to using ESXi as a hypervisor and running SME as a guest.  Its worked well for over a year.
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,48335.msg239881.html#msg239881  Maybe something here will help.

[CharlieBrady]

I doubt that ESXi directly connected to an ISP is a good virtualisation platform on which to run SME server.

[daniel]

As long as there are two NIC cards in the physical box, it works great.  Just make sure that ESXi management connector is only attached to the LAN NIC and not the WAN nic used for the wan side switch.  Plus make sure all your guests use a NIC connected through a virtual switch or VLAN, never physically connect a NIC to a guest OS.  Also, static code the IP address of the VMWare Management NIC to an ip address that will be outside the dhcp range set in your SME Guest.  This way you will always have access to the server via VSphere Client running on a workstation.

[psoren]

As long as there are two NIC cards in the physical box, it works great.  Just make sure that ESXi management connector is only attached to the LAN NIC and not the WAN nic used for the wan side switch.  Plus make sure all your guests use a NIC connected through a virtual switch or VLAN, never physically connect a NIC to a guest OS.  Also, static code the IP address of the VMWare Management NIC to an ip address that will be outside the dhcp range set in your SME Guest.  This way you will always have access to the server via VSphere Client running on a workstation.

This is exactly how i set it up now. It's how i understood from the post you linked to, thank you.

Charlie,

Do you suggest that it would be best with a firewall between the ESXi server and ISP? That kind off takes the edge off trying to save ressources and hardware.

Per