I'm currently trying to set up a remote share for a bare-metal restore while booted into the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). I've hit a snag where I can ping the remote server, but it can't ping back to my machine. I've set up an IP address on my E1000 network adapter in WinRE, and it shows up correctly. However, vSphere isn't reporting any IP address for the VM, which I think might be causing the issue. Since WinRE has its limitations, I can't install any additional agents. Has anyone faced a similar issue? What troubleshooting steps did you find helpful?
4 Answers
What does your console display? Are you seeing anything odd there?
Have you considered switching your network adapter from E1000 to vmxnet3? That might help with the connection issues.
Unfortunately, WinRE doesn’t support vmxnet3, so I have to stick with E1000.
If you're really stuck, you could always try a workaround. Copy the data you need to a new vdisk using another system, mount that vdisk to the restoring VM, and then restore your data from that "local" vDisk. It might save you some trouble!
Just a heads up, vSphere only reports an IP after VMware tools are installed and running. It doesn't affect your VM's network capabilities much; it's more of an informational thing.
My ipconfig shows the correct IP, so that's good!