As this topic gets a bump... (and I remember something)
Let me correct something I said in my previous reply:
For the sake of sanity I just unhooked my macbook pro from the LAN and connected it to WiFi and have a Windows 10 guest request a new IP via DHCP.
It had no problem doing so and it was pretty transparent.
which actually turns out to be a confirmation on what the TS discovered.
Why?
Because I completely forgot that my WiFi only allows a limited list of MAC addresses to connect to the WiFi, so it must have used the host's MAC address instead of the guests one.
Just verified my WiFi's filter list and there is NO vmware mac address in that list.
My apologies for drawing the wrong conclusion.
However I do hope though that you followed my advice to open a support issue on this and I recommend everybody who bumps into this and need to get it fixed to do the same.
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Wil