Help....Vmware VCenter issue/question.

[Behind-the-wheel]

I've been working on this crap for the past 2 days. I'm about done right now and thinking about saying fukkit and starting my damn weekend early.

Can anyone give me some advice on this crap? Don't get me wrong...I know my VMWare but this is stumping the hell outta me...

You have a set of 8 Virtual Machines running on VMware VCenter with VMware ESXI hosts.
The 3 virtual machines on your host were created with BIOS CPU-flag settings and have functioning Virtual NICs that can access the network and internet properly.
The 5 virtual machines with UEFI settings have non-functional Virtual NICS that appear to work but have zero network and internet connectivity.
The Network settings are correct on the host and in VCenter "Network Settings".

The solution appears to be switching the CPU-flag of all the Virtual Machines to "BIOS"...right? Well, that won't work because once the image has been applied to the virtual machine and the virtual machine has been started, it cannot be changed....ever.

So...the next solution is to reimage the UEFI virtual machines and initialize them with a BIOS CPU-flag right?
WRONG!
There are zero bootable .ISO images that will work with the UEFI CPU-flag AND have the capability to load/interpret the VMWARE Virtual NIC drivers.

So you're effectively stuck between a rock and a hard place...

Anyone have any advice?
I'm not sure where to attack this besides blowing up the entire virtual host and starting over from scratch...which would take a week to rebuild.

ARGH!

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Dios mio the flash backs I got from that OP. May God have mercy on your soul. I remember having to trouble stuff like this at school and having to use some of the most pcs in the world.

 

[ball15life]

Can you just delete the 5 vms with the UEFI CPU flag and clone one of the 3 that are good?

 

[Behind-the-wheel]

Dios mio the flash backs I got from that OP. May God have mercy on your soul. I remember having to trouble stuff like this at school and having to use some of the most pcs in the world.

Seriously breh...I'm about to just say fukkit and walk out for the weekend.
This is bullshyt...

 

[Behind-the-wheel]

Can you just delete the 5 vms with the UEFI CPU flag and clone one of the 3 that are good?

I would delete them, but I wouldn't be able to reimage with the set of images I need.
I don't know how the other engineer got these fukkin things on the host in the first place. I do not have not one frickin bootable .ISO that will load into a virtual UEFI environment. And of course...the engineer that created this stack of hell is gone for the weekend already...