Hi,
Yes I figured this would fix your issue.
Note that the soft suspend has its use as well, especially in a network where IP's are handed out by a DHCP server. In that case it is not a bad thing if your VM releases the DHCP address on suspend.
Then on resume it can ask for a new IP address and you won't get IP address conflicts.
That's the idea behind the way it works when you use soft suspends.
It is also possible to keep soft suspend and then customize the scripts that are run by vmware tools on suspend and resume.
More information about that is here:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/11.2.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vmwaretools.doc/GUID-B0702BD6-07F5...
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Wil
