A cloud implementation engineer successfully created a new VM. However, the engineer notices the new VM is not accessible from another network. A ping test works from another VM on the same subnet…

An incorrect subnet configuration can cause a VM to appear functional within its local broadcast domain - since Layer 2 frames are delivered directly without a gateway - while preventing proper inter-network routing because the VM misidentifies which destinations require forwarding. A mismatched subnet mask explains why same-subnet pings succeed while all cross-network access fails.

An incorrect host IP address would typically cause broad connectivity failures including same-subnet pings, not a selective pattern where local communication succeeds but remote networks are unreachable.

An incorrect VLAN assignment would isolate the VM from all other hosts, including those on the same subnet, so same-subnet ping success rules out a VLAN mismatch as the primary cause.

An incorrect gateway would prevent cross-network traffic routing, but the gateway setting is only relevant after the subnet configuration is verified; a subnet error is more fundamental and would produce the same symptom pattern.