Sandbox environment in VSphere

[dazza007]

Hi

I have spent some time researching how to create a sandbox environment to do some backups testing (arcserve) and am still confused.

If I remember (I had done something like this a while ago) all I need is a separate vswitch with a vmkernel to the management network and a port group that is routed to the isolated VLAN

I remember that the VLAN routed to the core but only has layer 2 routing setup, so that this vlan cannot talk to the production network.

Thinking logically about it the backup server needs one of its' network cards to talk to the management Vlan?

There is no need for communication to the other networks as the console can provide access to the VMs OS.

Has anyone else setup this sandbox environment for backup testing

Regards,

Darren