Hello. I have read a few articles on this subject but I still can't seem to do this. Firstly, let me give my specs, and then the scenario.
I have a Dell T620, 96Gb of RAM, 1 Xeon 2620 Hex core processor. I'm using ESXi 6.0. Nothing crazy on it. 1 NIC from my physical server is in use here.
I'm trying to build a CCIE lab using EVE-NG. While it's not a requirement, there's a certain topology setup that uses two subnets, and loads all of the necessary configs into flash so they can be loaded up within seconds, rather than configuring new labs when a new topic comes up. ANYWAYS...
I have a MAC that I do everything on. My subnet for my LAN within my house is 192.168.69.0/24 and that's the management LAN for the sole port-group I have. I'm able to communicate to and from any VM on this subnet with my MAC.
Now here's where I think my lack of knowledge with ESXi comes into play. I am trying to add a second subnet, which corresponds with my vmnet1 on my MAC - 172.16.55.0/24. My vmnet1 on my MAC is .1. A second interface on my EVE-NG VM uses .2. I CANNOT for the life of me, communicate on this subnet. If I add 172.16.55.3 on another VM, i'm able to ping WITHIN the ESXi environment, but nothing communicates to and from my MAC on this subnet. It's most likely a configuration issue.
Not sure if this matter, but I do have VM Fusion installed on my MAC as well. I'm not sure if this is interfering with anything; i.e. if it adds some type of configurations locally on my MAC that may override anything that the ESXi needs to use...I don't know if that even makes sense haha. The VM Fusion has a windows 7 VM on it, with a second interface on the 172.16.55.0/24 subnet, in which I could hit that on my MAC, but that cannot hit anything within the ESXi environment either. The purpose of this windows VM is to be used as a TFTP server.
I'm just going to put this here as a reference. This is the article i'm following to get this lab setup.
Nick's CCIE Progress and Methods: Method Post - Using EVE-NG for INE ATC Labs
I get stuck on Step 2, where after the two pictures, he has a "Note" under the second picture that states you should be able to ping that IP that you configured on the EVE-NG pnet1 interface.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to be as thorough as possible the first time around.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.