Unable to configure a Private LAN on my vmware

[Muneer01]

Hello guys, please who can support/assist me in resolving my lab issues. I have been troubleshooting since day before yesterday with no resolution. 
I have my windows 10 vm and fortigate 7.6.3 vm on the vmware station 
I am pretty much sure i have the ip configurations correctly 

The windows 10 vm is on custom- host only 
fortiagate vmnet 2 is also on custom - host only 

The vmnet2 on the virtual network editor is also on vmnet 2 with 10.10.10.0/24 network 
My port 2 on fortigate is 10.10.10.1 /24
my NIC on windows 10 is 10.10.10.2 /gateway - 10.10.10.1

Physical host - 10.10.10.75 /gateway 10.10.10.1

I made sure both fortigate vm and windows 10 vm are on the same vmnet2 

However i do not know why i cannot reach fortigate 

I just realised that if i change the connection from custom - host only to bridged 
it works and i can reach the fortigate 

the custom - host only wouldnt 

and i am concerned that not having lan network and a wan settings to the internet would prevent me from understanding firewall config 

I didnt pass fcp last week but i am determined to pass it next time i write again


So thanks as i wait the community's responses

[AEK]

Hi Muneer

This looks like a VMware related issue, so it is probably more helpful to post the issue in VMware forum.

Good luck for the next FCP attempt!

[Muneer01]

Hello AEK, Thanks for the response. 
Could you help me with a link to that forum?

Thanks 

[AEK]

Here it is:

https://community.broadcom.com/vmware