How to boot to domin network & Firewall by default everytime you boot up

Hello Everybody,

Machine OS's: Server 2008R2 & 2012

VMWare ESXI

Veeam B&R

The issue I'm facing is when I run Veeam SureBackup jobs I have VM's that will fail ping tests because they boot up to the public network thus using the public firewall and are unreachable unless you log in through the ESXI console and disable then re-enable the network adapter. After that they will pick up the domain network and firewall allowing communication.

I would like to make these start up on the domain network & firewall automatically upon starting. Is this possible?

I tried changing the NLA service to delayed start to see if that would solve the issue but it didn't.

Any help will greatly appreciated

Thanks Jeff