Hi I have an esxi5 running on hp micro server with two physical NIC cards which is visible on esxi as vmnic0 and vmnic1. Originally I was using vmnic0 as a main network as management interface and also VM NICs which is connected to my internet. No problem here. Now I connected the second adapter which is represented as vmnic1 to another private router in my home which has its own separate subnet through physical wire. That second router has its own Dhcp and configured correctly as I connect my cell phone and tablet to that and gets ip from its DHCP. However vmnic1 is not getting IP address at all. Here is the configuration:
phys. netcard vmnic0 192.168.1.254 (ip got from internet router) no issues, connected to management network vSwitch0
phys. netcard vmnic1 ??? no ip, connected to separate vSwitch2, physical network is connected to router with DHCP 10.0.1.1 with range 10.0.1.2-10.0.1.100
For debug effort, I imported vmnic1 into VM running on that ESXi and statically assigned ip address 10.0.1.101 so that it falls in same subnet as second router and tried to ping router (10.0.1.1) however got "destination unreachable" message. Obviously ping is not reaching the second router.
So my question is why? Can someone help on this?
I put below the esxi configuration network:
Thanks!