Networkproblem after hardware upgrade

[vv1]

Using Upgrade Manager till upgrade VM's.

VMware tools start with unistalling all the old drivers then install new onces and reboots.

After that i upgrade the hardware and reboot the VM's.

Now start the problem, the VM's is't accesible from the net. After loggin in to the console "a new hardware was found you need to reboot, pops up"

I reboot, still no acess, logging into console once more, a new networkcard is in place with DHCP enabled!!!

This happens to all our VM's 2003 32/64 std/ENT

Also in different clusters with Hp BL465c G1 or BL460c G1

Anyone has the same issue??

[KEPete]

My initial upgrade did the same thing. All of my Windows 2003 R2 servers freaked out after the hardware upgrade. I did upgrade the VMTools before I did the hardware upgrade and thought I would be scott free. But the issue appears to be that when you upgrade the hardware, it installs a new NIC device as well as a new scsi controller. It took several reboots as well as reconfiguring the nic cards within each guest to stabilize. What really threw me was how it caused all of my Symantec Antivirus clients to reinstall itself.