Unable to ping vmware guest from another vmware guest

Oakparktech

[h=1]Unable to ping vmware guest from another vmware guest on same ESXi host. I am running nested ESXI host on HP Proliant DL380G6. [/h]I was able to before. don't know what change. Management network promiscuous is enabled.

I can login in to Host 1 and ping Host2...

please help

rockstar81

Local firewall on one of the guests?

cruwl

Can Guest1 ping guest2?
Can Guest2 ping guest1?
Firewall disabled on both guests?
Can either ping Gateway?
Subnet mask set correctly on guests?

Oakparktech

disabled firewall did the trick.
Guest 1 can ping Guest2
Guest2 can ping Guest1.
Both can ping the gateway.
yeah subnet mask setup correct.
previous i had firewall on on both guest and was able to ping guest1/guest2 both okay.

in a real world env, is the firewall turned off on vmguest?

thanks a lot

tomtom1

Oakparktech wrote: »

in a real world env, is the firewall turned off on vmguest?

thanks a lot

You mostly treat a virtual server the same way as a physical server, there are some options to do firewall or anti virus on VMware level (NSX provides a distributed firewall for example) but if you don't have that, secure and patch a virtual server the same way as you would a physical.

Oakparktech

tomtom1 wrote: »

You mostly treat a virtual server the same way as a physical server, there are some options to do firewall or anti virus on VMware level (NSX provides a distributed firewall for example) but if you don't have that, secure and patch a virtual server the same way as you would a physical.

thank you