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VMWare Server, getting it to use 2 networks

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So I have this situation. I have been instructed to put up a web server for our CRM solution. The webserver has to be IIS and in our DMZ. So I created the VMWare instance on our VMWAre server (yes it is server, not ESX or ESXi). So our VM instance needs to be able to talk to our accounting server which is in our intranet.

The VMWare server has two NIC cards. I have one plugged into the DMZ and one plugged into the Intranet. The VM Instance has two NICs, but I can't figure out how to get the second NIC to be on the Intranet.

A simple network diagram can be found here.

Any ideas on how to accomplish what I need? It is either try this or try to make the firewalls do what I need. I am trying both though.
 
You have to bridge one of the VM nics to the outside/WAN nic on the physical machine and then bridge the other VM nic to the interal/LAN nic on the physical machine.
 
dbwilllis has it correct. if it helps any in the network config screen you will see both nics the 1st (the leftmost one physically) is usually 0:0 the 2nd one 0:1. So knowing that you can make vswitch1 attached to nic1 (0:0) connected to intranet, and make a 2nd vswitch attached to nic2 (0:1) to your DMZ. Now all thats left is to edit your VM to have 2 nic's one to vswitch 1 (intranet), the 2nd nic to vswitch2 (dmz). Power on your vm and edit network settings accordingly (they will both show up). Hope this helps.
 
That worked, however I found something interesting. I now have Bridged, and VMnet2 as options besides NAT and HOST. However Bridged goes to my Intranet (NIC #2), and VMnet2 goes to my DMZ (NIC #1) now.

Originally Bridged went to the only active NIC (NIC #1), is it supposed to do that?
 
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