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Having to restore some servers and noone documented the Local Admin password. &nbsp;So this machine is on a vlan that has all static addressing. &nbsp;So obviously it can't authenticate a domain user against it.. Is there a way with vmware to statically assign an IP somehow?
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Having to restore some servers and noone documented the Local Admin password.  So this machine is on a vlan that has all static addressing.  So obviously it can't authenticate a domain user against it.. Is there a way with vmware to statically assign an IP somehow?

Set Static IP of machine without console access

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