[phillcampbell]

After much messing about the last few nights I finally have ESXi running on SYS-E32-3 box (this wasnt the hard bit), I am tempted to write a guide to help others out but first wonder whether this is something that would interest people.

A bit about my setup:

Internet
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IPv4 (primary IP)
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SYS-E32-3 running ESXi 5.5
(will include upgrade instructions in my guide)

The virtual side of things is:

Internet
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IPv4 / IPv6 (failover) / ( global /64)
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Debian firewall/router (eth0 WAN using failover IPv4 and global /64)
| (eth1 LAN using gobal /64)
IPv6
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VMs

So my internal network is IPv6 only, using my /64 prefix. I had to set up neighbor discovery proxying with some help from npd6 to get this working. All my internal systems have a global IPv6 address and can be accessed from the internet (depending on FW rules) using the global address. Access to IPv4 hosts from the internal network is available using DNS64/NAT64. Should any internal VMs need IPv4 I either assigned a local IPv4 and use NAT, or (if I can) NAT the internal IPv6 to my failover IPv4.

Whilst others might not want my complete setup, I encountered a lot of hurdles along the way which may help others, particularly getting IPv6 working and routed through the firewall.

Phill