Static IP in LAN for a Netgear WNR1000v3 Router

First - routes & ip addresses are two completely different & unrelated things, so static routes & static ip addresses will also be different - you can have either one without the other, or both at the same time, depending on what your goal is. Second - under typical circumstances, the installation of an internal web server will not require a static route to be configured in the router, although, if the web server is to publically accessible, other changes will probably have to be made to the router configuration. Just so that it is clear - I have hosted both internal and publicly accessible web servers behind Cisco routers without setting any static routes, so to say that a static route has to be assigned is incorrect, it may have been required by your particular network configuration, but for a typical consumer/residential network such as would be expected behind your consumer/residential Netgear WNR1000, it would not be a normal requirement. I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty of VMware, other than to say if you can ping the Netgear from the CentOS console, a static route on the router is probably not required.