How to disable auto change NAT ip for every vmware file?

[fun_9990]

When I would like power off and power on my vmware OS

I see Internal NAT ip changed every once

How can I disable this problem?

for example my internal ip was : 192.168.189.160

And after power off and power on my server it goes to 192.168.189.164

and I would like this be stable on 192.168.189.160

[continuum]

Option A: assign a fixed IP to each guest
Option B: set a  higher Lease-Time.
This is a parameter that tells the VMware DHCP service how long it should  reserve an IP to a special VM.
See the file : C:\ProgramData\VMware\vmnetdhcp.conf
Here is the relevant part ....
###################################

#

# Configuration file for VMware port of ISC 2.0 release running on

# Windows.

#

# This file is generated by the VMware installation procedure; it

# is edited each time you add or delete a VMware host-only network

# adapter.

#

# We set domain-name-servers to make some clients happy

# (dhclient as configued in SuSE, TurboLinux, etc.).

# We also supply a domain name to make pump (Red Hat 6.x) happy.

#

allow unknown-clients;

default-lease-time 1800;                # default is 30 minutes

max-lease-time 7200;                    # default is 2 hours

[fun_9990]

And about plan A ?

[a_p_]

Setting fixed IP addresses is done within the guest OS. That's not different from configuring physical systems.

Another option might be to create DHCP reservations, see Re: How to keep the same IP addr over time

Please note that by default, fixed IP addresses should be in the range 192.168.xxx.3 - 192.168.xxx.127.

The Range 192.168..xxx.128 - 192.168.xxx.254 is used for DHCP.

André