I have been struggling with getting my setup to work. After reading threw some documentation for vsphere. I noticed that vcenter server must not be behind nat. Does that mean it should not be behind a firewall??? I also have questions regarding the AD DC in the whole setup.. If i set this up as Non NAt does my AD DC need to have its own public ip that is not behind nat too? Also the hosts do they need to also be installed in a non nat environment?
Setup is
Both hosts have the same hardware as follows.
Mother Board: Supermicro X9DAX-7TF. duel 10gb nic.
2x Intel Xeon E5-2687W
256gb ram 1600mhz
lSI 9271-8iCC with BBU
SUPERMICRO SuperChassis CSE-846E26-R1200B
6x intel DC S3700 Raid 10 caching with Write cache back for LSI cachecade 2.0
The Jbod is SUPERMICRO SuperChassis SC847E26-RJBOD1
Hard drives as follows for the jbod
44 1tb seagate ST1000NC001
and other various hard drives as follows
6x 4tb wd se
6x intel dc s3500 480gb
6x seagete cheeta 15k rpm
8x 1tb wd re
Vcenter server is a
xeon v4 e3
16gb ram
2 micron m500 480gb raid 1
1tb sas backup drive
dule 10gb nic card
Firewall is a dell poweredge 1950 dule cpu 3.5 ghz with a dule 10gb nic card.
Networking hardware as follows
1 8 port netgear 10gb switch
2 24 port tp link dummy switches
1 cisco small busienss switch
Vmware licencing
with essential plus licensing
