Category: Windows Technologies

VMWare Hypervisor Host and Network setup: Install a VMware ESXi host, with one NIC card and have it configured to a IP address from your existing valid domain IP-addresses (prefer to be a static) (172.21.1.125). Install vSphere server appliance and have it running either on the same host or on a different device that’s running in the same network (172.21.1.3)   Create a separate VM Ports group to classify your Test VMs that going to use their own network setup but all of its traffic will travel with outside world via the same physical NIC adapter as shown below Windows […]

SUMMARY This article describes how to use automatic Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) addressing without a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server being present on the network. The operating system versions listed in the "Applies to" section of this article have a feature called Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA). With this feature, a Windows computer can assign itself an Internet Protocol (IP) address in the event that a DHCP server is not available or does not exist on the network. This feature makes configuring and supporting a small Local Area Network (LAN) running TCP/IP less difficult.   MORE INFORMATION A […]