I have a Dell M1000e Blade Server and have ESXi 3.5 installed on each of my 3 Hosts (physical blade servers). The 3 hosts are clustered within vCenterServer, and I have all of my VM's (13 of them) built across the 3 hosts.
Host 1
-VM1 172.16.20.221
-VM2 172.16.20.222
Host 2
-VM3 172.16.20.223
Here is my issue:
I have a distributed switch with Physical adapters assigned (but I feel like for this scenario, that shouldn't matter... correct me if I'm incorrect) The Distributed switch has a VM Port group assigned to it with a VLAN 20 tag. NIC's in that port group have been assigned to VM 1 2 and 3. The IP Scheme is 172.16.20.x, and I've triple checked the gateway and all that, I really feel like it must be a VMware thing.
Functionally, I can connect between VM1 and VM2, but neither can see VM3 and VM3 cannot see them.
I guess my gut feeling tells me I need to physically switch between physical servers, but it seems like VmWare should connect them logically and virtually if they are on the same network.
Thanks for your help