My apologies if my OP was confusing. I have tried both dynamic and static with no success. When trying DHCP, it won't pull an address at all. When trying to set a static, it will not communicate with the network (I cannot ping, etc)
I have installed a Windows Server on the same ESXi Hosts and same vSwitch and it pulled DHCP just fine and can talk to the network so I no longer think it's related to the networking side of ESXi