Your physical switch port could be misconfigured or your patch cable could be bad.

To attempt to force it to a higher speed in vSphere Client:

Configuration -> Networking -> Click Properties of vSwitch pNic is associated with-> Network Adpaters-> Click in question pNIC->Click Edit button->Change Speed/Duplex setting.

-MattG

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