Hello together - I'm playing around with my testlab, that looks as follows:
- physical server, hosting vsphere 5.1 (and within vsphere about 10 virtual machines, that host a windows domain and are intended to provide some other functions)
- physical notebook with vsphere client 5.1
- both connected directly via cable (no router, static ip)
As you can see, server and notebook exist on a dedicated network with 192.168.16.xxx ip adresses.
Let's assume, that my "virtual" domain setup includes a dhcp server that delivers ip adresses to the other vm's on a mac-addres-basis. (vms then have ip-adresses in a 192.168.17.xxx range).
Unfortunatly, it is not possible for me to "drag-and-drop" files from my vsphere client into one of the virtual machines (nevertheless vmware tools are installed on the windows server 2012 r2 vms).
My question now is - how would it be possible to route between the two networks - including providing a rdp-port-forwarding or sth like that - to copy files to the virtual domain and to access the virtual machines via rdp...
Would it be an opportunity to place a linux as a "router - vm" ?
Please provide information as detailed as possible, because my linus and networking skills are very limited 
10000-thanks in advance - cheers