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Hello
I have a dedicated server booting up to Freenas 8.3 using a USB stick. I can connect to it fine from vcenter server and physical server. The Freenas box is a physical server. I also have a physical server running VMware workstation with ESX and Vcenter virtual servers.
Summary:
VCENTER Vmare server, 192.168.159.x (Running in VMware w/s using host only)
ESX Host, 192.168.159.x (Running in VMware w/s using host only)
Freenas physical HP NL540 server 192.168.1.x
The issue I have is I can get the ESXs to ping everything but I can not get Freenas to see the ESXs or the VCENTER server when I ping them from the shell. Therefore, I can not get the ISCSI to connect to the Freenas storage. I can not ping the Freenas server by IP or host from the ESX either. Freenas is already configured to allow the IP range for the NFS (192.168.159.x/24) - subnet 255.255.255.0
I did get this all working at one stage so I know it works but I can remember how I configured this all. My ESX and VCENTER are on the same network, example, 102.168.159.x. my Freenas server is on 192.168.1.x.
I am using HOST ONLY. My VCenter also has bridged NIC to connect to the Internet.
I am not that good when it comes to networks so my question and still learning VMware workstation (not sure how I got this all working when I put this togother months ago). Should I be using HOST ONLY or NAT ? Is this is a default gateway issue? Please advise what I am doing wrong.
I have spent 2 days trying to get this working so any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance
I have a dedicated server booting up to Freenas 8.3 using a USB stick. I can connect to it fine from vcenter server and physical server. The Freenas box is a physical server. I also have a physical server running VMware workstation with ESX and Vcenter virtual servers.
Summary:
VCENTER Vmare server, 192.168.159.x (Running in VMware w/s using host only)
ESX Host, 192.168.159.x (Running in VMware w/s using host only)
Freenas physical HP NL540 server 192.168.1.x
The issue I have is I can get the ESXs to ping everything but I can not get Freenas to see the ESXs or the VCENTER server when I ping them from the shell. Therefore, I can not get the ISCSI to connect to the Freenas storage. I can not ping the Freenas server by IP or host from the ESX either. Freenas is already configured to allow the IP range for the NFS (192.168.159.x/24) - subnet 255.255.255.0
I did get this all working at one stage so I know it works but I can remember how I configured this all. My ESX and VCENTER are on the same network, example, 102.168.159.x. my Freenas server is on 192.168.1.x.
I am using HOST ONLY. My VCenter also has bridged NIC to connect to the Internet.
I am not that good when it comes to networks so my question and still learning VMware workstation (not sure how I got this all working when I put this togother months ago). Should I be using HOST ONLY or NAT ? Is this is a default gateway issue? Please advise what I am doing wrong.
I have spent 2 days trying to get this working so any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance