rwk1982
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Enthusiast

Hello!

You cannot change the Type of the NIC in the GUI. Here you can only delete it and add a new one with the correct type but this will also genereate a new MAC Adresse for your VM. For changing the NIC Type and preserve the MAC Address i always use PowerCLI/PowerShell -> PowerShell Gallery | VMware.PowerCLI 12.0.0.15947286

Open PowerShell and install the PowerCLI Modules:

Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI

Now you can connect to your vCenter with:

Connect-VIServer -Server yourvcenter.fqdn

And change the NIC Type of your VM (the VM must be PoweredOff) - in your case:

Get-VM -Name SDWAN_vESXi | Get-NetworkAdapter | Set-NetworkAdapter -Type Vmxnet3

Hope this helps a little bit

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