Connecting two ESXi hosts

elangley

Hello All,

I am technical but not a wide area networking expert so any help would be sincerely appreciated.

I need connect two (or more) ESXi hosts, or other hosts/appliances that cannot install a VPN client, in different locations via OpenVPN? OpenVPN would be installed in each site as a virtual machine.

It seems to me that there would need to be a site-to-site vpn setup and the ESXi hosts would need to have a separate VMkernel setup for the VPN connection through OpenVPN.

Another option would be to setup the vpn as a gateway/router and change the gateway in the hosts.

Does either of these make sense? Is there a better way to do it? Is there documentation?

Thanks in advance,

~eric

maikcat

i believe that using plain routing you will be able to access
your esxi servers via openvpn installed in a VM.

just setup openvpn in routing mode and create a lan-to-lan tunnel.

Michael.

elangley

Michael,

I found this: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Routing_internet_traffic_through_a_site-to-site_OpenVPN-connection_in_PfSense_2.1

which is close to what I want to do with the following differences.

-Only a few hosts at Site A will be setup with the OpenVPN Client set as their gateway, not every host.
-For those hosts Internet traffic will not be routed to Site B, so routes will have to be configured to send their Internet traffic to the local Internet gateway. Is that possible?
-Site A will be behind a NAT, hopefully that won't be a problem in connecting to Site B.

Thanks,

~eric