Issue removing NIC in Windows VM

[nicolettigiusep]

Hi,

I have a problem with NICs on a Windows Server 2003 VM.

I created the VM with 3 Nics and it worked correctly.

Then I decided to remove one NIC but something strange happened. Let's give an example to explain the isuue.

Let's say that that the IP Address of the 3 NICs are:

NIC 1: 192.168.1.100

NIC 2: 192.168.1.101

NIC 3: 192.168.1.102

If I remove the NIC 2 the new IP address are:

NIC 1: 192.168.1.100

NIC 3: 192.168.1.101

So the NIC 3 now has the IP of the NIC 2 and not is true IP (192.168.1.102)!!

How you can imaginate, this casued a lot of networking issues for my VM!!

Has someone got the same problem?? How Can I solve it? Why VMWare has this strange behaviour?

Thanks

Giuseppe

[hhmz]

Do you have static IP assigned to NICs?

Regard

hhmz

[nicolettigiusep]

Yes I have static IPs

[hhmz]

You want tell that if you entered IP in TCP/IP network configuration ESXi changed IP when you removed network adapter.This is really strange.

Do you have vmware tools up to date?

..maybe same virus

regards

[nicolettigiusep]

Yes,

to be more clear it seems that WMware "shifts" and reassigns the IP Addresses like I described in the example..

VMware tools are updated.