Hi,
I have the following in my lab.
- Physical Managed Switch
- Physical ESXi server (connected to port 5 on switch)
- Windows 10 VM running on ESXi Server (connected to vmnic1, port 6 on TP-Link)
- OPNsense Firewall VM running on ESXi Server (connected to vmnic1, port 6 on TP-Link)
The OPNsense Firewall VM can do Sub-Interfaces, and VLAN tags.
I'm looking to have Router-On-A-Stick configuration where the Router VM is running inside ESXi while the switch is physical. All VLAN configurations will be on the physical switch. I have read that VLAN configurations must be done on either the physical switch or vSwitch, not both.
The way I see it the traffic flowing this case is as follows:
- Traffic from Windows 10 VM will come to vSwitch11 (VLAN 11 vSwitch connected to vmnic1, port 6 on physical switch)
- Traffic from Port 6 will go to Port 5 on physical switch (Port 5 is trunk and is vmnic0 in ESXi)
- Firewall VM vNIC is vmnic0 will receive VLAN11 traffic
My question is whether Router-On-A-Stick possible this way and will traffic will ever leave ESXi vSwitch ?
Thank You
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