I'm a bit stumped on this one, and having a background in HP switches is making it worse. I have a metro-e connection that will have up to 100 VLANs coming in on it. This is connected to a GigE port ...

so, this is an excercise in the convuluted. we are trying to outdo Rube Goldberg, and likely have that covered in spades. i am building a network for my brother, and have to accomodate his requirement ...

Trunking is the final piece of the design. On the physical interfaces, the VMWare ESX server can be on a single VLAN (“External Switch Trunking”), VLANs can be trunked to the vSwitch (“Virtual Switch ...