Thanks so much for the helpful reply. I had actually just stumbled across the network configuration for the host right before you replied. After playing around with it for a few minutes I had it figured out. However, your post steered me in the right direction to create two switches. I'm new to running a vm server and find it very useful. I've run vm's on top of OS but never the other way around. I'd tried proxmox in the past but so far am liking esxi much, much better.
Thanks again for the help, however I have one more quick question.
I'm wanting to add a ntfs 3tb hard drive to the system to allow windows serve up my files. Can this be done without having to format my hdd?