Thanks for the reply. We had an export of a working server that I imported into my host via sftp. I created 3 separate folders under my Datastore folder and imported the vmx file into each directory. I then renamed the vmx file to what the server's role would be. I used my management laptop to connect to the ESXi host and then browsed the data store for each virtual machine. This allowed me to boot each machine from the console tab in VSphere.
I set each server to its own static IP address. 10.0.0.100, 10.0.0.101, and 10.0.0.102.All 3 have the Windows Firewall Service completely disabled
My host is 10.0.0.2 and is connected to port 2 on my switch
My management laptop is 10.0.0.9 and is connected to port 3 on my switch
I have another ESXi host at 10.0.0.1 on port 1
I have my AD/DNS machine at 10.0.0.20 on port 9
As I said, I can ping and RDP from any other port on my switch to each virtual server. I can ping and RDP from each virtual server to any port on my switch. But nothing works between the three of the virtual servers. No ping, no RDP, and no ODBC connection (Those are the three things I tried).
Will run the command in a few minutes and update this post. Oh, and I turned off UAC for testing purposes.
*** Edit to add***
The command throws an error that the Windows Firewall Service is not enabled.
Also, just for informational purposes, when I am RDP to 10.0.0.100 and I ping 10.0.0.101, I get:
Reply from 10.0.0.100 destination host unreachable
I will re-enable the firewalls and run the command again to see if that fixes things.
***Edit again***
The command said "OK" but I still can't ping the other 2 servers when logged into one of them. I also looked at the arp cache after my ping attempt and it is not even seeing the IP address of the server I just tried to ping.