Hello all,
I have created a vmware template of Windows 2008R2 with 3 VMXnet3 adapters. Before the template is shutdown I remove the 3 VMXnet3 nics from Windows. The problem that rises when the template is deployed to a new virtual machine is that the nic order in VMware and Windows are applied in random order. You would expect that everytime you deploy the template to a new virtual machine the following order is applied:
Windows: Local Area Connection = VMware: vmxnet3 Ethernet Adapter
Windows: Local Area Connection 2 = VMware: vmxnet3 Ethernet Adapter #2
Windows: Local Area Connection 3 = VMware: vmxnet3 Ethernet Adapter #3
The problem is that every time a template is deployed to a new virtual machine the adapters gets ordered differently. As an example:
Windows: Local Area Connection = VMware: vmxnet3 Ethernet Adapter #2
Windows: Local Area Connection 2 = VMware: vmxnet3 Ethernet Adapter
Windows: Local Area Connection 3 = VMware: vmxnet3 Ethernet Adapter #3
This is quitte annoying when you want to use a standard for applying VLAN's to VMware nics.
I hope that somebody has a solution for this problem.
Grts, Marco