Preparing the VM interfacesįor the Edge Router we’ll use the TRUNK interface of dSwitch-1 I’ve used VM Network just for the Edge router (pfSense in my case).Īlso enable the following security settings for the first and second trunk link portgroups. If you’re using VM Network as an up-link to your virtual machines then you do not need to configure an up-link on the dSwitches. If we don’t separate L2, clients/servers with access ports will communicate directly with the Edge Router instead and that’s not the intended objective here. Access ports which clients and servers will use, are configured on dSwitch-2. Each of them needs to have their own TRUNK-link Portgroup with a range of your choice. We’ll need two switches which I’ll refer to as dSwitch-1 and dSwitch-2.