netmikem (5/18/2013)
I've made quite a bit of progress (after many hours) and have learned much in the process.I now have the lab environment setup except that my VMs have no internet access. I've played around quite a bit and it seems once I use static IPs for my VMs, as instructed in the training kit, I lose internet access. However, if I use DHCP, I can access the internet from the VMs.
When using static IPs (via the netsh interface command), I notice there is no default gateway given but I'm not sure that is the issue.
I think I can press on without internet access but I think it would be preferable if it was available on each VM.
If anybody has faced these issues also and resolved them, I'd like to hear how you solved them!
If you want internet access, you need two network adapters: one for internal communication between the servers, and one for external communication (the Internet). The internal will have fixed IPs like in the training kit, the external one will use DHCP to connect to the web. If you want to do clustering, you'll need an extra network adapter for clustering traffic.
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