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Accessing the built lab
While the VMware Workstation console is perfectly functional you may wish to use guest OS native tools, like
RDP. If your PC has an IP address on the lab subnet then you may use these directly. Alternatively the Router
VM provides access to the lab from its external IP address.
Some access to the lab is published through the router. In the example below the external IP address of the
router is 192.168.20.199, I use a DHCP reservation and a fixed MAC address on my router VMto keep this
consistent in my lab.
Windows sharing from the NAS VM is published on the normal ports so you can access the Build share through
the routers external IP address.
The management web interface of the NAS VM is available on the standard HTTP port 80 of the router’s
external IP address.
The VC VM is available via RDP on the external IP address of the router using the default RDP port of 3389.
The DC VM is available via RDP on the external IP address of the router using port 3388.
The router also provides access to SSH access to the ESXi servers and VMA, this allows PuTTY or another SSH
client to connect to these VMs from your external network.
The management interface of the Router is the main thing that cannot be accessed from the external network;
this is athttp://192.168.199.2:82 on the internal network.
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