Containers cannot reach eachother (PhotonOS 3, minimal, clean install).

Hi guys. spent several days on resolving this. But need your help to solve my issue.

Description:
On a clean system install, I started Docker and run several containers (Portainer, Influxdb, Chronograf, Telegraf).

Connectivity to the containers from the outside (e.g. a different computer) works perfectly.
Connectivity from the containers to the outside works also perfectly.
But the containers on the same dockerhost cannot reach eachother.

Reflection
So, my system setup runs fine as long as I do not interconnect the containers (e.g. run telegraf on a different server), but ofcourse, this is not the objective of having a dedicated VM as dockerhost.

My personal thoughts: PhotonOS somehow restrict network traffic from one container to another.

The exact (!) same docker setup works fine when run on Centos8 (both bare-metal, as in VM). I made a picture of the three situation that I tested with.

System description
10th generation i7 NUC (NUCi7FNH, 64 GB ram)
Clean install of Centos8 (minimal, SElinux disabled, firewalld disabled, root access)
Clean install of VMware Workstation pro 16 (Linux version, nogui)
Clean install of VM with PhotonOS (minimal, 8 GB ram) .. it is the only VM running on the VMware host / I tried both the ISO and the OVA alternative.
VMware network adapter in bridge mode.
Containers network run in bridge mode.

Any help, experiences, best practices? Would be really appreciated. Thanks.

greetings, Jasper.

Reproduce the report on a clean PhotonOS 3 minimal install with Docker bridge networking and the listed Portainer, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Telegraf containers. Compare container-to-container connectivity with the described CentOS 8 setup; done means identifying the PhotonOS-specific cause and documenting or implementing a verified fix.