Tried to run through this guide:

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/3025fa870882c20c03b333f965a40a3302904012/docs/getting-started-guides/coreos/coreos_multinode_cluster.md

On VMware, there is no eth1, so the flannel configuration dies.

Once you get past that, there is also an issue where etcdctl doesn't properly update the flannel network settings because the etcd server isn't set to the master.