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Building A Virtual Server For Cisco Lab Studies

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Hello All,

I have been researching ways that i can simulate multiple host (5 or more hosts) in a virtual enviroment with a dedicated NIC for each host, but i wasn't able to come up with a direct answer. I would like to be able to have them connect as tho they were in a production network, to test various routing and switching scenarios as if there were an end using.

So my question in, what hardware and software do i need to buy to be able to accomplish these goals? Mainly assigning each host their own 100/1000 NIC.

Thanks.
 
Im guessing youd need a virtual server/host with multiple nic's
 
Yes, just s sold server/pc that can run many virtual windows machine with their individual NIC cards, so i can connect to a switch.

I have very little knowledge about VM and Servers.
 
You could do it with a single NIC and VLAN tags, assuming the goal is only to have virtual hosts on separate networks connected to physical Cisco equipment.

Any hypervisor that supports Q tagging should be capable of this.
 
The Q tagging sounds good with one exception, that would utilize only a single cat5 cable from the server/pc to physical cisco switch and probably using that single port as a trunk port, that's not what i want.

I would like to have multiple NICs on a single system, which each host/virtual machine having their own NIC.

Any other suggestions.

Thanks.
 
if you must have physical nic just put some in an esx host and pass it through to the vm. Or you can use usb nics and assign them to vms in workstation 9
 
OP, what are you planning to do with the virtual hosts?

If these are just acting as clients for you to interact with the physical cisco network, I don't see any reason for PCI-passthrough. It'll just be an extra complication.

Just put each vmnic on a vswitch, connect your VMs to whichever vswitches you want, and call it a day.

If you're trying to run GNS3/Dynamips on them, perhaps you would need PCI-passthrough for that depending on how they work. I've never used them.
 
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