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Hey, I have the exact same issue. I have an old legacy Win2k server with FLEXlm on it. I did a P2V into ESXi 3.5. After I set the MAC address as you did I lost my network connectivity. A reboot didn’t help. I was wondering if you also reconfigured anything at the VM level for the MAC or did you leave those settings at the defaults (auto MAC). How To Change MAC Address in VMware, How to create a 3D Terrain with Google Maps and height maps in Photoshop - 3D Map Generator Terrain - Duration: 20:32. Orange Box Ceo 6,304,261 views.

Vmware Vcsa Setup Manual Mac Address 10

In most network deployments, generated MAC addresses are a good approach. However, you might need to set a static MAC address for a virtual machine adapter with unique value.

The following cases show when you might set a static MAC address:

• Virtual machine adapters on different physical hosts share the same subnet and are assigned the same MAC address, causing a conflict.

• Ensure that a virtual machine adapter always has the same MAC address.

By default, VMware uses the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) 00:50:56 for manually generated addresses, but all unique manually generated addresses are supported.

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Make sure that no other non-VMware devices use addresses assigned to VMware components. For example, you might have physical servers in the same subnet, which use 11:11:11:11:11:11, 22:22:22:22:22:22 as static MAC addresses. The physical servers do not belong to the vCenter Server inventory, and vCenter Server is not able to check for address collision.

I think we are all familiar with the manual MAC address issue - some software depends on the MAC for licensing, and in VMware you need to stick to a certain range of Ethernet addresses if you want to be able to manually put in your own MAC address.

Somehow I think that should have been written in big, bold letters before I started virtualizing a couple of years ago. I'm pretty sure it wasn't mentioned in the class, either. I have several apps that generate their license based on a server's MAC. And yes, now I have to change virtual NICs on several VMs from either Flexible or E1000 to VMXNET2.

Currently running vSphere 4.1, ESX build 320092 across the board.

Since I didn't plan ahead far enough to manually put in those MAC addresses, now I have no choice but to find some way to keep them until the vendors can regen the licensences.

So, here's the procedure I'm using to keep the MAC address:

1) Write down the old MAC

2) Replace Flexible NIC with VMXNET2

3) Unregister the VM

4) Edit the .vmx file and replace the automatically assigned MAC address with the old MAC address

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- this is how I get around the GUI

5) Re-register the VM with the host

6) Boot up

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So far it has worked for me just fine on two test servers. The question is: Will this cause any problems down the road?

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I am currently running a 'vanilla' network setup - no distributed vSwitches. However I do plan on putting that in place later this year, and that's where I'm not sure it my little procedure will come up to surprise me at that point.