Hi
I am very new to VMware and was forced to use it to get a critical server up and running after a hardware failure.
The problem I have is that the network connection between client computers and the server 2008 VM gets interrupted every 2 – 10 minutes. This causes the client accounting package to close and they have to reconnect when the connection is available again.
What I have done so far:
Updated Intel 1000 MT Driver then changed network adapter from E1000 to VMXNET
Added DisableTaskOffload Reg key to the Server 2008 registry as per a solution to this similar problem I found on google.
Below is a ping result from a client pc to the server when the connectivity drops.
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.16.12: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Any Help will be much appreciated as I have been trying to sort this out for 3 days now and cannot find the problem.