I have a pool of persistent desktops for software developers. Two of the machines started having issues after an attempted upgrade to Visual Studio 2015, they interrupted an uninstall of VS2013 after the reboot both machines could not get a valid IP address and could not be accessed via the VI Client console, the web client console or the VMware remote console application. when windows was running. I could see in to the VM bios when it booted and I even tried to start them up in safe mode where I can see the part of the load but when windows starts to get its legs the console is locked out.
Some details:
ESX 6.0.0.324770
Vmware Horizon View 6.2
VM Version 11
OS: Win7 64bit
SCSI controller is Paravirtual
The network adapter is the VMXnet3
Vmware tools - current
The .vmx file is not locked