Hey Experts,
I have a very difficult networking question.
I purchased a dedicated server from a hosting company and they asked me what OS. I chose ESXi because of the cost of them providing me with Windows when I already have my very own legitimate copy for use as a guest O/S/.
Windows 7 is installed and runs fine via the vSphere client but it cannot get an IP address. From what I have been able to glean I have been provided with exactly one IP address. The network page of the host shows that the IP I was given has been assigned statically (I confirmed it was not set to automatic) to the the host.
As such windows is unable to achieve the task of getting an IP and connecting to the Internet.
I just wanted to ask the experts out there if there was a way to somehow move that IP to the windows BOX and then configure the host to use say 192.168.5.10 and then create a second NIC in windows for the 192.168.5.20 and then be able to use vSphere from within windows and let windows have the public IP. Of course I would need to do all of this with no physical access to the machine in question. Of course running like this where the only way to access the stable hypervisor is from an unstable copy of windows is probably not the best approach.
What would be ideal is if there was a way to configure ESXi host to share its IP and allow the guest access to the internet via that IP. However, I am using ESXi version 5.0 (the only version offered to me by the hosting company) and I have already installed the free license from VMwares website so if there were any trial features available they went bye bye when I installed the free license.
I am assuming I need to purchase additional IPs and the hosting company has graciously said they would provide me with a free IP for up to 24 hours to see if that solved my issue of no internet from the guest o/s. I get to play with that free IP tomorrow sometime.
Any guidance on this topic would be appreciated.
Cheers
Risah.