GNS3 on ESXI 6.5 LAB Setup

 

1.       Virtual Switches, vSwitch0 (default) no modification.

2.       Added virtual switches Vswitch1 to 5 no physical network ethernet card for uplink.

Figure 1-all settings are default except VSwitch name

3.       Under Port  groups, GNS3, pnet1 to pnet5 is added.

Figure 2- Port Group GNS3, pnet1 to 5 created

 

 

4.       GNS3 port is under vSwitch0, set security to “Accept” for Promiscous mode, MAC address changes and Forged transmit.

5.       The rest of the port group pnet1 to 5 settings VLAN ID is set to 4095

Figure 3- configure other port group to corresponding vSwitch and set to Trunk (VLAN ID 4095)

 

Figure 4 - the rest of the port group VLAN ID is change to trunk, security is set to accept all.

 

6.       For the virtual machines network adapters, use E1000 adapter.

 

 7.       An Ubuntu Virtual Machine with E1000 Adapter type is also used to communicate to GNS3  VM using cloud interfaces.

 

 

Figure 5 - Test lab- UbuntuVM connected to pnet1