Windows 2008 networking issue.

[Rohail2004]

I built a new W2008 VM but I am unable to ping the VM from other network, or neither I can ping anything else inside the VM... All other VM's running under the same host are working fine, but the new 2008 VM isn't. I ran the Windows Network Diagnostics and got an error saying " Windows has confirmed that this computer is currently experiencing network connectivity problem" contact your Internet service provide or network Admin. But everything looks same to other VM's.. Any ideas? What could be the issue? Thanks in advance.

ESX 3.5, build 123630

[Francis_Beland]

I am doing a major infrastructure upgrade for a client and I had a problem with Windows 2008 where the IP address (IPv4) change automatically to x.x.x.1 (which is the default gateway for us). To solve the problem, we had to restart the machine after the IP address was modified. Upon reboot the ip address is automatically changed to x.x.x.1 . We then change the IP address for what we want and everything goes well after. I don't know, maybe it's the same problem for you. Take a look again at your IP address configuration to be sure that everything was saved.

[Rohail2004]

IP address configuration is fine even after multiple reboot...

[Rohail2004]

Just an FYI for all.

Issue has been resolved after I moved the 2008 VM to my 3.5 ESX host which has all the patches installed up to date, and now it is working fine...... my other host did not have all the patches up to date.

thanks for your help..

[azn2kew]

Can you specify what are the patches were missing and are you sure its the patches that caused the problem or just the networking issues or virtual machine port group configurations discrepancies? What version of ESX 3.5 you're using?

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[Rohail2004]

I dont know the exacth patch number, but as soon as I applied the latest patches it worked just fine.. i am using ESX 3.5 build 163429..

[Texiwill]

Hello,

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