Primary NIC not being recognized

[Guest doris]

Hi,

 

I'm running Virtual Center 1.4.1 and the ESX host is at 2.5.5. My VM is

built with a windows 2003 server OS and has two NICs. My binding order is set

on these NICs but the VM is not recognizing the primary IP - it keeps

defaulting to the second. I'm trying to figure out if this is a VM/win2003

issue or a win2003 issue. The same environment with windows 2000 works fine.

Has anyone else encountered this?

 

Thanks for any help

[Guest Lognoul, Marc [Private]]

Re: Primary NIC not being recognized

 

Is the configuration of your NICs identical in VMWare? Did you install

up-to-date VMWare tools in your guest?

Is your guest resulting from a cloning using sysprep? did you try

uninstalling both NICs inside the guest, rebooting and reconfiguring again?

 

--

KR/Amicalement/MVG,

Marc

 

 

 

"doris" <doris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:6DB362B7-0851-491E-B3A1-E2359BBB805B@microsoft.com...

> Hi,

>

> I'm running Virtual Center 1.4.1 and the ESX host is at 2.5.5. My VM is

> built with a windows 2003 server OS and has two NICs. My binding order is

> set

> on these NICs but the VM is not recognizing the primary IP - it keeps

> defaulting to the second. I'm trying to figure out if this is a VM/win2003

> issue or a win2003 issue. The same environment with windows 2000 works

> fine.

> Has anyone else encountered this?

>

> Thanks for any help

>

[Guest doris]

Re: Primary NIC not being recognized

 

Hi Marc,

 

VMWare tools are all up-to-date. The guest is not the result of cloning -

they were all built individually. Yes, I did try uninstalling and

reconfiguring - it didn't help. I have 4 servers seeing the same issue - all

have 2 NICs (NIC1 is on a fake backbone and tNIC2 is for the Intranet). On

all 4 servers, the summary tab on the VM is showing NIC2. This wouldn't be

such a big deal except that the app I'm using seems to keep defaulting to

NIC2 on one of these servers - even though it's set up to use NIC1.

 

Have you seen this before?

 

"Lognoul, Marc [Private]" wrote:

> Is the configuration of your NICs identical in VMWare? Did you install

> up-to-date VMWare tools in your guest?

> Is your guest resulting from a cloning using sysprep? did you try

> uninstalling both NICs inside the guest, rebooting and reconfiguring again?

>

> --

> KR/Amicalement/MVG,

> Marc

>

>

>

> "doris" <doris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:6DB362B7-0851-491E-B3A1-E2359BBB805B@microsoft.com...

> > Hi,

> >

> > I'm running Virtual Center 1.4.1 and the ESX host is at 2.5.5. My VM is

> > built with a windows 2003 server OS and has two NICs. My binding order is

> > set

> > on these NICs but the VM is not recognizing the primary IP - it keeps

> > defaulting to the second. I'm trying to figure out if this is a VM/win2003

> > issue or a win2003 issue. The same environment with windows 2000 works

> > fine.

> > Has anyone else encountered this?

> >

> > Thanks for any help

> >

>