Setting up in my ESX environment

It appears that all of the documentation I have seen so far is about setting up the VM in VMWare player. What about those of us with ESX? I am having one particular issue that must be a screw up on my end, but I can't figure it out.

 

 

I have taken IP addresses from three of the vlans in our environment. One vlan is where my admin interface is, one is my external vlan and the other is my internal vlan. I have created a test pool, with one physical node and a vm as the other. The simple http monitor works fine with the physical node, fails with the vm node. If I ssh in to the LTM I cannot ping the VM node, I get a "Destination Host Unreachable" error. The VM node is on the same subnet as the my external vlan. (It just occurred to me that this might be the problem, is it?) I cannot think of a reason why the LTM VM cannot communicate with another VM with an IP address on the external vlan. I can ping another VM with in IP address on the internal VLAN.

 

 

I have created a virtual server with an IP address on either the internal or external VLANs. I cannot access either of the virtual servers. The virtual server on the external vlan does not even respond to pings and https requests eventually time out, the one on the internal does respond to pings, but it immediately resets (according to the error page in firefox.)

 

 

It appears I have a routing problem of some kind in the LTM. Any ideas on where to start? I just have the default route domain, and nothing else set up with regards to routing.

 

 

Thanks for any pointers.