In this section, we will look at the networking choices we have when it comes to building our environment. It is critical that we use the networking features of the VMware Workstation tool and take advantage of the capabilities it provides for us. Open your VMware Workstation software and open a virtual machine of your choice. When you do this, you will see a network adapter that is a part of the configuration. We will look at this later. Navigate to Edit virtual machine settings | Network Adapter. This will bring up the configuration window for the adapter, as shown in the following screenshot:
As you can see in the preceding screenshot, there are a number of settings that we can make on the network. What we want to do is to understand that each of these settings represents a switch, and when you create a network adapter with that setting, it is equivalent to connecting that machine to a switch. We will take a closer look at this once we discuss the different...