Unable to ping ESXi 5.5 guest VM from Workstation 11

[rivc1982]

Hey all,

Been doing a lot of searching and haven't turned up any successful results. Currently unable to ping my ESXi VM's from my Windows 10 laptop which is running workstation 11.  I have setup a custom VMnet (host only) with a specific subnet that the ESXi management interface is addressed to. I assigned that same VMnet to my ESXi VM settings. I have dropped my windows firewall, disabled anti virus software, disabled ESXi firewall and reconfigured NIC drivers to vmxnet3 with no success. I know the VMnet I created is functioning because I have an XP machine in that same VMnet we are able to ping successfully between the XP VM and my laptop.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

[rivc1982 · Accepted solution]

Fixed with help from coworker. I am brand new to VMware and have a lot to learn.

With configuration noted in my previous post I made the following changes.

Modified my portgroups to VLAN ID 0

Configured NIC drivers to vmxnet3

I can now vSphere from my host laptop into my ESXi 5.5 guest VM.