I have been using ESXi 5.1.0 (Build 799733) on a Home Desktop/Server for six months now, and I have upped and down the system many times. Recently I was going to have a planned outage and decided to place the system in “maintenance mode” (done vie the vSphere client) now when I turn the system back on it is unable to access the network no matter what I seem to do. I can ping myself just fine. The system see that there is a network because I can see the network connection vmnic0 status connected. I am thinking that setting the system into maintenance mode and then turning off the power did something funky with the network settings. I have look at the following KB articles but it did work. Any other ides?
I am tempted to reset the system configuration but I hesitant because I don’t know what it might do.