First you can assign any legitimate IP address to you VM - is does not have to come out of that range - that range is discovered range of IP addresses being offered on that segment usually by a DHCP server - and as long as that network 10.0.1.x is accessible from the physical switch the VMs will communicate to that network -
To change the VM to a different NIC - you simply change the Virtual Machine Port group the virtual NIC connects to -
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