How to create a virtual LAN of 3 clients and 1 server in VMware # Part2: Configuring Virtual LAN

Here, we will be seeing how to configure a Virtual LAN for the VMs we created from the Part 1.

If you remember from Part 1, we selected the default network conifig NAT when prompted. Here I'll show how to make each VM talk to each other, and i'll be showing it via a new custom Network Adapter, not the pre-configured VMnet8 for NAT. This would help you understand more about VMware Workstation.

Below shows the options we selected while creating a VM. The Network Adapter part shows NAT, which is what we selected when configuring.

How to create a virtual LAN of 3 clients and 1 server in VMware # Part1: Installing/Configuring a Guest VM

Often you need a LAN environment to practice your Microsoft/Linux server or Networking concepts, setting up a physical LAN environment is not practical for learning in most cases.

Thanks to Virtualization.

I am going to show you how to configure a Virtual LAN consisting of a Windows Server 2003 and three Windows 2000 Clients in VMWare, I am good at VMWare, I find it extremely reliable especially in case of Network configuration, I had problems with the same in VirtualBox.