I am currently using VMware Workstation 10 at work to set up labs so that I can study for various MS exams however I am not that familiar with VMware. My question is that when setting up a virtual lab what is the most appropriate network setting to use? The other day I set up 2 domain controllers with DNS and DHCP with a 172.16.0.0 IP range and had my VMs set to use the NAT setting. This unfortunately led to a handful out of a few thousand clients on my physical network to then pick up my virtual servers DHCP broadcast and renew with an IP lease from the 172.16.0.0 range.
I might be wanting the best of both worlds here but I want to basically isolate any kind of settings getting out on to my physical network but would if possible like them to have access to the internet. I suppose that is quite contradictive because even using the internet requires a request to go out on the physical network before it can receive anything back.
Any suggestions?