Hello
I been experimenting for the last couple of days with the ESXi 5 hypervisor. Here is my current conceptual setup:
1 physical machince -> 1 VMware Player 4 VM running ESXi 5 hypervisor -> 7 different VM's running on the hypervisor ( all running CentOS 6.2 )
All is working well except that there doesn't seem to be multicast support. I have two services running that require it for my testing purposes. They are:
tomcat 7.0.25 for session state replication ( trying out a clustered config )
and CentOS's Piranha services ( required for failover purposes from one loadbalancer machine to another )
I realize that I gain nothing by clustering everything under one VMware player VM. However, this is more for educational purposes, possibly for use on real server equpment in the near future.
When I was running the 7 linux VM's in just VMWare player ( not nested ), I had a similar issue that was resolved by the fact that VMWare player defaults to e1000 NICS and by changing them to vmxnet3 nics solved that problem as e1000 nics apparantly don't support multicast.
I tried changing the VM Ware Player's NIC to vmxnet3 in hope that would solve the problem, however that only made it to where the NIC wasn't found on boot up of the hypervisor.
Is there a way to get Multicast working with the conceptual model described above.
If certain configurations are needed, please let me know what is needed and I will be happy to provide them
Thanks for any assistance provided.
-B