Vsphere 5 Crossover Network for 2 VMs?

[nitrobass24]

I am trying to test the HA capabilities of BlueCat DNS.
In production environment, we will be using Physical appliances, but I only have VMs for the test environment.

Can I connect two VMs directly without using a host-only switch or Port groups?

 

[QHalo]

Unless you're passing a NIC though to the VM itself then plugging that into a hub or standalone switch, I'm not sure how you can do it without a host-only switch or port group. Could just be late in the day though...

 

[bmh.01]

No you'll have to create a vSwitch or a dvPortGroup somewhere.

 

[NetJunkie]

Right. You'll need to create a vSwitch and then put a NIC from each VM in to that vSwitch. The vSwitch won't need any physical uplinks added in for the VMs to talk..but you can't connect VMs directly without a vSwitch.