I have VMWare with a Windows 2012 R2 VM setup. I'm trying to setup the VM to have a static NAT address (DHCP disabled) and connect to the internet. I can't seem to figure out why it's not working for me. The VM can connect to the internet just fine with DHCP enabled but once I change it to static, using the same IP Addresses, it stops working.
I modified the Virtual Network Editor to use a specific subnet and disabled DHCP
Modified the VM TCP/IPv4 settings to use a static address
The only thing that I've noticed is the host NIC for VMnet8 keeps changing it's configuration back to default. Even if I change it to the new subnet it wasn't to go back to 192.168.21.0.
I've tried many different types of configurations but I cannot seem to figure out exactly what I'm doing wrong! This VNE guide wasn't very helpful and many other resources didn't help much either.