Hey Bill,
3 virtual copies of Windows Server 2008R2 running on them ... but I can not communicate between the three
How were the VM's created? Also when you mention you are unable to communicate between the three, do you mean just pings or even RDP does not work?
Are the VM's set to static IP or DHCP?
Can you run the following command on an elevated command prompt on each Windows 2008 machine and let me know if that helps?
So start - Run - CMD (right click run as administrator)
netsh advfirewall set allp state off
Regards
a