I have a an ESXi machine that is currently running standalone (not connected to vCenter) and I'm having trouble getting a virtual switch to pass VLAN tagged traffic. I've attached screenshots of the config.
The machine management traffic is on VLAN 121 and this traffic passes just fine. I cannot get the VM traffic to pass on VLANs 151 or 500. The switch is setup correctly (I'm 99% sure) with trunk ports. I believe there is a configuration issue in ESXi but I cannot figure out what it is.
The machine also has a distributed switch configured but I am unable to attach any VM NICs to these distributed switch port groups without getting this error: "Addition or reconfiguration of network adapters attached to non-ephemeral distributed virtual port groups (NET-TR-VBR01-LAN1) is not supported." I'm assuming this is because it is currently disconnected from the vCenter server, correct?
Any help or guidance on this is greatly appreciated. It has to be something so simple that I'm just overlooking.