Background:
My ex-colleague installed an ESXi under free license and had been running well for 2 years. Last week, we couldn't login into vSphere after a hard reboot. I went to Direct Console and it was showing an IP that doesn't belong to our network. I corrected the IP and managed to login to vSphere. To my dismay, all the settings are gone. Luckily, I managed to create the VMs from my VMDK (over network in another h/w using FreeNAS).
Problem:
My VM's network doesn't seem to work properly. Attached are my setup.
Questions:
1. Am I supposed to set the MAC Address manually? When I leave it Automatic, it seems to give a MAC that doesn't exist in my adaptor.
2. Any suggestion why my network is unstable? Is it due to settings or it is more likely to be corrupted VMWare / faulty hardware?
I appreciate any help / suggestion.
