What do all the VM adaptors mean on my laptop?

[Nick Perks]

Hi, I'm not entirely sure if this is forum to answer this question but I hope you'll take pity on me and help.I'm essentially trying create a network in GN3 as part of a CCNA course I'm currently following:

But so far I've run into some problems and I'm a little bit confused.  When I assign a static ip address to both the Windows 10 VM and the Kali VM they are both able to ping R1.  However, when I assign dhcp to these VMs they no longer are able to ping R1 and seem to be getting an ip address from else where.  I believe they are now getting them from the subnet that the GN3 VM is using, it's ip address is 192.168.214.128.

The GN3 VM is using the following network connection in VMWare:

And both the VMs are using the following network connection:

I'm not sure if this is making a difference to how my network is performing.  I looked on my laptop and found various different VM adaptors:

I was hoping somebody might know what all these adapters are for and what they do or could point in the direction of a nice article to read.  Even better would be somebody who could tell me why my network wasn't working in GN3.

I apologise in advance if this isn't the correct forum for this question and if it is not then could somebody point me in the right direction of where I might be able to get some support.

Thanks

[a_p_]

The default installation creates two virtual network on the host.

VMnet1 (Host-Only), and VMnet8 (NAT). Both have a DHCP service enable by default, which however you can disable using the Virtual Network Editor.

Another one is VMnet0 (Bridged), which however does not create a virtual host adapter, but is added as the "VMware Bridge protocol" in your physical network adapters configuration.

Other virtual networks can be created individually.

André

[Nick Perks]

Not sure how I can reply to the person who left a response, but thanks that certainly helped