Thursday, 22 August 2013

Setting up VMWare ESXi 5 with a single physical NIC

Setting up VMWare ESXi 5 with a single physical NIC

I have a cheap but powerful dedicated server I am leasing with OVH,
because they were recently having a promotion. I would like to try and
manage all this power by playing with VMs using ESXi.
However I am only provided with a single NIC.
I had thought this would be easy to get around since, at home I have a
single NIC which is my broadband modem, and yet a simple NAT gateway
device happily provides internet access to all my devices.
I am struggling to implement this on ESXi, though. Can anyone advise on
how I could go about having ESXi and multiple VMs working with just one
NIC?
Here's my current setup:

I believe all I need is to be able to configure NAT from the NIC to all
the VMs etc.. How would I set up and administer this kind of
infrastructure?

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