Using osboxes.org downloaded installed CENTOS7 image, after startup, Ifconfig can not see the network card, need to shut down after the ESXi client to edit the virtual machine, delete the network card, save, add network card, network card type selection VMXNET3
After booting, Ifconfig can see the new network card, named eno16777984, in/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/under the new file ifcfg-eno16777984, the content is similar to
Device="eno16777984"HWADDR="00:0c:5e:37:67:ff"nm_controlled="No"Onboot="Yes"Bootproto=staticipaddr=192.168.10.99NETMASK=255.255.255.0GATEWAY=192.168.10.1
Then restart the network
Systemctl Restart Network.service
Centos7 Modify the start level to the command line (multi-user)
LN -s/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target/etc/systemd/system/default.target
Configure static IP for CENTOS7 virtual machine under ESXi5.5