Change E1000 to vmxnet3 keeping all IP information

[fborges555]

hi guys

I would like to change some VM Nic from e1000 to vmxnet3 and keep all the info that is already bind to the old nic(E1000), is this possible ?

Thanks

[LucD]

That IP information is internal to the Guest OS, nothing to do with vSphere.
If you change the type of the vNIC, the guest OS sees this as a new network adapter.
You will have to arrange to apply the old IP settings on the new adapter yourself.
How to do that depends on the type of the Guest OS.
Also note, taking away the old network adapter will disable all network traffic to and from the VM.
With Invoke-VMScript you can still reach the guest OS of the VM, in most cases.