BIGIP VE under Fusion Pro 10

From macOS Terminal:

cat /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/networking

What is your output? You should see a bunch of stuff similar to this:

cat /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/networking
VERSION=1,0
answer VNET_1_DHCP yes
answer VNET_1_DHCP_CFG_HASH 4096360A66F5587A10B999CC4758A010E918F6B6
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_1_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.186.0
answer VNET_1_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_2_DHCP yes
answer VNET_2_DHCP_CFG_HASH EDE43DD0AE3EC6967BE41D250865C4010F7B01E9
answer VNET_2_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_2_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 10.128.1.0
answer VNET_2_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes

.....

From the page you mentioned, I put in this:

VERSION=1,0
answer VNET_2_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_2_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.102.0
answer VNET_2_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_2_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER_ADDR 192.168.102.1
answer VNET_3_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_3_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.103.0
answer VNET_3_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_3_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER_ADDR 192.168.103.1
answer VNET_4_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_4_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.104.0
answer VNET_4_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_4_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER_ADDR 192.168.104.1
answer VNET_5_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_5_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.105.0
answer VNET_5_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_5_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER_ADDR 192.168.105.1
answer VNET_6_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_6_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.106.0
answer VNET_6_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_6_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER_ADDR 192.168.106.1
answer VNET_7_HOSTONLY_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
answer VNET_7_HOSTONLY_SUBNET 192.168.107.0
answer VNET_7_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER yes
answer VNET_7_VIRTUAL_ADAPTER_ADDR 192.168.107.1a

Hrm. If you configure the interfaces from the virtual machine settings, are they available to modify? Can you go into "Network Adapter 2" and select a vmnetX? My worry is that Fusion in a trial may not let you use more than X adapters.

Hmmm, I suppose not? : https://i.imgur.com/n2YVGXt.png

If that's the case then you should be able to use mgmt and the 1.0 interface if the trial does not allow you to add further network adapters.

Just use the 1.0 interface to hairpin traffic, not an uncommon solution in smaller cloud deployments. Traffic will go in and exit that same interface but you can still config virtual servers and play around with the features.

Wait, I misread that. I can add more interfaces; https://i.imgur.com/lVVy6hC.png

It's available, I added a bunch of vmnet interfaces in my previous screenshot as proof.

Sorry, missed that. If you restart BIG-IP following the additional interface creation do the interfaces show as uninitialized?

Hello @Chase, I rebooted the F5 several times

your bigip shows that it has not activated its license yet per screenshot. I suggest you activate the license first then move on to configuration.