Just like the topic says I'm trying to make a physical server talk to a network on a Virtual Machine Port Group. Here's the setup:
My internet connection comes into my Cisco RV082 router. From there the following are connected to the RV082 (on a 192.168.0.0/24 subnet):
2 VMWare ESXi 5.1 Servers running various VMs; each one has three physical NICs with two of each plugged into the RV082 and the third NIC on each server plugged into each other (crossover connected).
1 Physical server with two NICs; both also plugged into the RV082.
The two ESXi servers have four identical networks configured: VM Network (192.168.0.0/24), Management Network (192.168.0.0/24), Firewalled Network (192.168.10.0/24), and Cluster Network (10.10.10.0/24). The cluster network is assigned to the cross-connected NICs. Only the VM network and the Management networks can talk to each other. The others are all independent. The VM Network and Management networks use nic1, the Firewalled Network uses nic2, and the Cluster Network uses nic3 in each of the ESXi servers.
With all that, how can I get my physical server to talk to my Firewalled network (192.168.10.0/24)? The physical server is plugged into the same RV082 as nic2 from both ESXi servers. I thought about adding a small switch to the setup, plugging nic2 from both ESXi servers into it, and then plugging the NIC in the physical server with the 192.168.10.x address into that same switch. I'm pretty sure that would work but I'd rather not introduce another piece of equipment since this is at a colo datacenter and I'd have to pay for the extra AC outlet. It seems to me this ought to work since all the NICs in question are plugged into the same switch. The Firewalled Network connection on both ESXi servers is set to VLAN 2. Could that be the problem? If I set the port from the physical server on my router to VLAN 2 also it doesn't help. My physical server still can't ping the VMs on that network.