I know this is an old VM, but I have a 2003 server that just stopped responding on the network today. If I reboot the server, I can ping it from the time it starts booting until just before the login screen pops up, but then it stops responding again.
Here are the things I have done.
1. I reinstalled the VMware tools.
2. I uninstalled AV software
3. I made sure the windows firewall was turned off.
4. I tried removing the NIC and adding a new one.
5. I moved the VM to a server with a known working network connection.
6. I gave it a static IP. Still can't ping the default gateway.
7. I recreated the VM using only the vdmk file to make sure it wasn't a VM setting.
Still no luck. If I restart it will have network for a few seconds (meaning I can ping it for a short time during boot). Then nothing. Any help would be appreciated.
I am running ESXi 6.0 running hardware version 6.