{"id":192,"date":"2015-07-07T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T11:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2024-02-04T19:50:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T19:50:28","slug":"cable-connections-on-esxi-switching-topology-using-cisco-vios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"CABLE CONNECTION\u2019S ON ESXI \u2013 SWITCHING TOPOLOGY USING CISCO VIOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I will show you how to make cable connection between the switches using ESXi.<\/span><\/h1>\n
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I could not find a proper document and hence I thought I will write this article so that this might help the other engineers\u00a0\u00a0using ESXi to build the virtual topologies more effectively.<\/p>\n

I am using Vios-L2 image for this demo. Please do not ask me for this image and I am not going to SHARE this.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am currenlty labbing from the Narbik Workbook. \u00a0Please visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.micronicstraining.com<\/span>\/ for their Workbook material.<\/p>\n

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I am going to show you how you can make the above topology virtually. The CCIE R n S version 5 is Vitual and hence I thought of implementing the same.<\/p>\n

Looking at the above diagram, we see that we would need 4 x Virtual-Switches and 13 cables to interconnect them.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get Started<\/p>\n

First we will create cable connection so that we can connect between the switches.<\/p>\n

In order to do that, select ESXi host and then go to Configuration tab and then click Add Networking as shown below.<\/p>\n

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Once you click Add Networking, follow the below procedure as shown below.<\/p>\n

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Select Virtual Machine and click NEXT<\/p>\n

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Make sure you un-select the VMNIC-0 as we just need a cable type connection so that we can connect two switches.<\/p>\n

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Once you un-select, hit Next.<\/p>\n

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Give a meaning Full Name to the Network Label and Select Vlan-ID (4095) and hit Next.\"Featured<\/p>\n

Now Click FINISH.<\/p>\n

If you look under the configuration tab, you will see that the network connection is created and there is no adapters connected to it.<\/p>\n

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Using the above procedure, I have created 13 such connections.<\/p>\n

I have connected 4 switches as per the below diagram.<\/p>\n

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If we examine the Network adapter settings for Sw-1, you should set it like below.<\/p>\n

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SW-2 Network Adapter settings :<\/p>\n

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SW-3 Network Adapter settings :<\/p>\n

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SW-4 Network Adapter settings :<\/p>\n

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Please note that the network adapters on these switches starts from G0\/0 onwards.<\/p>\n

Network Adapter 1 indicates its G0\/0,<\/p>\n

Network Adapter 2 indicates its G0\/1,<\/p>\n

Network Adapter 3 indicates its G0\/2,<\/p>\n

Network Adapter 4 indicates its G0\/3,<\/p>\n

Network Adapter 5 indicates its G1\/0,<\/p>\n

Network Adapter 6\u00a0indicates its G1\/1,<\/p>\n

Network Adapter 7\u00a0indicates its G1\/2,<\/p>\n

Network Adapter 8\u00a0indicates its G1\/3,<\/p>\n

Network Adapter 9\u00a0indicates its G2\/0,<\/p>\n

Network Adapter 10 indicates its G2\/1.<\/p>\n

As per my Understanding Cisco Vios images supports upto 10 Network Adapters. I might be wrong.<\/p>\n

Let me start the switches and see what show CDP neighbor tells us \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

On SW-1 :<\/p>\n

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On SW-2<\/p>\n

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On SW-3<\/p>\n

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On SW-4<\/p>\n

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If you are using Vmware WorkStation then you can only make 19 connections and that is the maximum it supports.<\/p>\n

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Today, I will show you how to make cable connection between the switches using ESXi. I could not find a proper document and hence I thought I will write this article so that this might help the other engineers\u00a0\u00a0using ESXi to build the virtual topologies more effectively. I am using Vios-L2 image for this demo. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccie-rns","category-cisco","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}