Starting with ESXi 6.5, it is not possible to select E1000 adapter when a new virtual machine is created using Windows Server 2012, 2016 and Windows 10 templates. The following workarounds are avaible: - Import the virtual machine from an older version of ESXi
- Do not select "Windows Server 2012", "Windiows Server 2016" or "Windows 10/64bit" Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit)" or "CentOS 7 (64-bit)" during virtual machine creation but select "Windows Server 2008" or "Other/Other 64bit" for exampleselect "Linux" as "Guest OS family" and "
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