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Hi!<br />
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Sorry for the delay.<br />
When I added the second nic as a vswitch it all worked fine.<br />
thanks.
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Hi!

Sorry for the delay.
When I added the second nic as a vswitch it all worked fine.
thanks.

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<b>*** WHAT WE WANT ***</b><br />
To be able to see and configure second networkcard in Windows Server 2008<br />
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<b>*** WHAT WE HAVE ***</b><br />
VMWare ESXi 4.0, Windows Server 2008, Netgear Ready NAS<br />
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<b>*** PROBLEM ***</b><br />
Netgear Ready NAS configured with IP 192.168.190.3 255.255.255.0<br />
Windows Server 2008 configured with IP 192.168.50.10 255.255.255.0<br />
We have tried adding a second Network Adapter of type VMXNET 3 thru vSphere Client.<br />
The NIC shows up in Server 2008 but when configured with IP 192.168.190.2 we cant ping Netgear NAS (with 192.168.190.3).<br />

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*** WHAT WE WANT ***
To be able to see and configure second networkcard in Windows Server 2008

*** WHAT WE HAVE ***
VMWare ESXi 4.0, Windows Server 2008, Netgear Ready NAS

*** PROBLEM ***
Netgear Ready NAS configured with IP 192.168.190.3 255.255.255.0
Windows Server 2008 configured with IP 192.168.50.10 255.255.255.0
We have tried adding a second Network Adapter of type VMXNET 3 thru vSphere Client.
The NIC shows up in Server 2008 but when configured with IP 192.168.190.2 we cant ping Netgear NAS (with 192.168.190.3).


VMWare ESXi add extra nic

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.