Hi All,
I want to set up an nsx home lab. how can i use multiple VLANs in a single switch port, Can this be achieved with L2 managed switch and software pfsense (act as a router)
pfsense installed on VMware workstation. No physical router.
Home Lab Hardware- intel Nuc 64GB RAM
Laptop 32 GB RAM
L2 Managed Switch
I would recommend keeping the L3 router in the ESXi host vSwitch connection and creating the required VLAN PG there for the router VM interface. Create a single Trunk PG on the same vSwitch and use it for NSX ESXI host Uplinks.
This will work, I do something similar for my nested environment.
Word of advice, if you need to run ECMP, you will likely struggle with the pfsense being a stateful firewall.
I tend to use something VyOS.