Creating the switches

We know that we have three switches that were created when we carried out the installation. This will allow us to create a number of different architectures, but we still need more switches for our design. The system has assigned our IP addresses for the VMnet1 and VMnet8 switches, respectively. We want to customize the switches to meet the IP addresses that we will use throughout the book. We have four subnets that we use throughout the book, and we will configure them now. This does not include the last chapter, and we will customize four switches just for that. In your VMware Workstation, click on Edit | Virtual Network Editor. This will bring up the network configuration window, and we want to configure the following:

This will provide us with the four subnets for the book, and also the four subnets in the last chapter. An example of the settings is shown in the following image:

We now have all of the switches that are required and can emulate any of the required network architectures throughout the book except for the load balancing requirement. We will configure that later.