Reply to Message

View discussion in a popup

Replying to:
R2B
Contributor
Contributor

Virtual machine gets IP address of 169.254.x.x

As is references in the Vmware kb article 2012646, virtual machines are obtaining an IP address of 169.254.x.x even though their network properties are set to a static address.  If I disconnect and reconnect the nic in the vmware console, it will set the proper IP address but these servers are rebooted often and this does not appear to fix whatever the root cause of this issue is.

This is running in a vmware 5.0 environment.  VMware tools are up to date.

This seemed to happen a couple weeks ago for no apparent reason.  Does anyone have any other suggestions other than the KB article referenced above?

I have checked for hidden devices and see none in device manager.  I have used the command prompt to show non-present devices prior to starting device manager.

Thank you.

Reply
0 Kudos