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After installing Unraid on the bare metal system everything is working as expected without any change to the configuration. So it had to be an ESXi / Unraid configuration issue. Happy it is working now!

Hi all! I'm evaluating Unraid instead of my current NAS + ESXi combination. Because of this I'm currently (temporarily) running Unraid virtualized inside an ESXi Host. I have a ESXi bridged network interface connected to the Unraid VM and passed a USB disk through that Unraid can access for its array (currently just one disc for testing purposes). I have a feeling that my problem is caused by the extra virtualization layer of ESXi, but I still do not get why this is not working. I have searched for simmilar problems and tried everything proposed (most hits were br0/virbr0 related and suggested enabling bridging). Here's the rest of my setup: Inside Unraid I try to run a VM. This is working; except networking. I cannot get a DHCP lease from my router. All other devices and VMs running insided ESXi do receive an IP address by DHCP assignment. Unraid network configuration: Unraid version 7.0.1 IP assignment: currently static (192.168.1.187/24), but also tested DHCP and this worked fine Bonding: disabled (also tried enabled and selected my only network interface available) Bridging: enabled Bridging members: eth0 Network protocol: ipv4 only Enable VLANs: no Internet on the Unraid host works fine; app/plugin installation works, docker containers can reach the internet, etc.. 🙂 I have installed a HomeAssistant VM by copying the prepared QCOW2 image from the HomeAssistant team. The VM boots fine, everything seems to be working except networking. HomeAssistant relevant VM settings: VM Name: Linux Machine type: i440fx-9.1 Network source: br0 (when using virbr0) Network model: e1000 (also tried VirtIO) I cannot think of anything else I could try. I'm currently waiting for some parts to build the new system and then I'm able to run Unraid bare metal; but best scenario would be that everything is prepared and I just have to mount the HDD in the system and everything 'just' works 🙂 Attached is my diagnostic output. tower-diagnostics-20250403-2050.zip