Hi,
Many of our engineers use VMWare Server for development, demo and testing purposes. Their desktops are connected to our 192.168.1.x network. When a virtual NIC is bridged to that network it receives a 192.168.1.x address from the main DHCP server as expected. This causes various issues such as running out of addresses, collisions, etc. We try to encourage the use of NAT, but it has issues of its own such as poor support under Windows 7 host, inability to access servers behind the NAT (and port-forwarding is a very tedious solution for that), etc.
I'd like to have all of our VMs receive IP addresses on a separate subnet.
1. Can the VMWare NIC driver add a a GIADDR field to DHCP requests or replace the Source IP address from 0.0.0.0 to an address on the designated subnet in order to provide a hint to the DHCP server for the required scope?
2. Can this somehow be achieved using VLAN configuration?
3. Can this be done using any other VMWare product (e.g. ESXi, Workstation) ?
4. Any other ideas on how to separate our production network from the VM images, IP-address-wise?
Thanks in advance,
Nir Gertner.