Configuring network settings on a VMware ESX host

This recipe will guide you through the configuration of a logical network on the VMware host and show you how to view compliance data for the physical network adapters on that host.

To make the host physical network adapters visible to the VMs that need external network access, you will need to assign them to logical networks.

Compliance data specifies whether or not IP subnets and/or VLANs allotted to a logical network are assigned to a host physical network adapter.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to associate logical networks with a physical network adapter:

  1. On the Fabric pane in the VMM console, expand Servers, expand All Hosts, and then select the host group where the VMware ESX host ...

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