ESXi Box with FreeNas VM with 2 Physical Systems attached to ESXI/FreeNAS VM, possible?

[n00bftw007]

As the title states, I have a system with ESXi that has 2 physical NICs, and a FreeNAS VM inside. Currently, I have one physical system connected via port 1 on the ESXI systems NIC, I can successfully connect to both the ESXi management network and the FreeNAS VM on said machine. I would like to set up a second physical system (port 2 on ESXi box NIC) to be able to access the FreeNAS VM, if not the ESXi management network also.

The current switch etc… setup inside VMware is currently untouched.

 

[koifish59]

I would think so, as long as you also map the virtual switch (that freenas VM is on) to the physical NIC port that the 2nd physical system will be connected to.

But waiting for someone else to chime in, in case I'm wrong.

 

[n00bftw007]

I managed to do it, I just created a second switch, attached it to the second port on the ESXI boxes NIC (now a VirtualNIC), created a new port group and added the new virtual NIC in the FreeNAS VM. I was overthinking it massively, I struggle to visualise things logically sometimes lol. Thanks though.