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Is there any way we can change the vmnic to half duplex full duplex other than Esxi host's nic? or Would you &nbsp;advice to change the seeing other than leave it as default?<br />
One of the VM is dropping from network despite changing the nic to vmnxnet3, not the other VMs on the same host.
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Is there any way we can change the vmnic to half duplex full duplex other than Esxi host's nic? or Would you  advice to change the seeing other than leave it as default?
One of the VM is dropping from network despite changing the nic to vmnxnet3, not the other VMs on the same host.

vm nic duplex

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