Upgrading your NT guests on your vSphere Hosts
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Of course, after upgrading the VMTools and then the Virtual Hardware on the NT guests, no IP addresses!Ā Argh!Ā After searching around the OS for the actual NICs (yeah ā Itās been a LONG time) We were able to re-install the vmxnet driver and everything worked fine.
Hereās a quick refresher for those that donāt remember NT. š
To add a virtual network adapter
Ā Ā Ā 1.Ā Ā Right-click the Network Neighborhood tab and select Properties.
Ā Ā Ā 2.Ā Ā Click the Adapters tab.
Ā Ā Ā 3.Ā Ā Remove the existing adapter and add a new adapter. Specify the new path as C:\winntsystem32.
Ā Ā Ā 4.Ā Ā To add a a virtual network adapter as AMD PCNet driver, select AMD PCNET Family Ethernet adapter.Ā Specify the path as C:\winntsystem32 and reboot the virtual machine.Ā
Ā Ā Ā 5.Ā Ā To add a virtual network adapter to vmxnet driver, click Have disk and specify path as C:\Program FilesVMwareVMware ToolsDriversvmxnet. Upgrade to the latest VMware Tools version
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā and reboot the virtual machine.
Here is the KB article that got us moving in the right direction :
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007168
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007168