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it depends on Server's Roles and Features.<br />
if the server is Domain Controller or act as DNS, so it will require reconfiguration.<br />
please mention the Roles, services and features of that server.
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it depends on Server's Roles and Features.
if the server is Domain Controller or act as DNS, so it will require reconfiguration.
please mention the Roles, services and features of that server.

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It was what I expected. &nbsp;The only way to change a NIC from E1000 to MVXNET3 is to add a new NIC. &nbsp;Once you do that the configuration in SBS is broken in regards to binding of various technologies. &nbsp;That requires running CEICW. &nbsp;Without running that I couldn't even RDP into the SBS VM. &nbsp;Once I did everything lit up.
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It was what I expected.  The only way to change a NIC from E1000 to MVXNET3 is to add a new NIC.  Once you do that the configuration in SBS is broken in regards to binding of various technologies.  That requires running CEICW.  Without running that I couldn't even RDP into the SBS VM.  Once I did everything lit up.

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We need to change the Virtual NIC on a Small Business Server 2011 instance on VMWare 5.5. &nbsp;We need to go from the E1000 to the VMXNET3. &nbsp;In order to do that it requires removing the E1000 NIC and then adding a new NIC as VMXNET3. &nbsp;Will this require a reconfiguration of the SBS by running the CEICW? &nbsp;Will this cause any problems?
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We need to change the Virtual NIC on a Small Business Server 2011 instance on VMWare 5.5.  We need to go from the E1000 to the VMXNET3.  In order to do that it requires removing the E1000 NIC and then adding a new NIC as VMXNET3.  Will this require a reconfiguration of the SBS by running the CEICW?  Will this cause any problems?

Does Changing out NIC on a Small Business Server 2011 Require Reconfiguraiton of SBS?

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

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.