Here are the vmx values that you can delete/change to alter the MAC. You can manually set the MAC is the OS and it will ignore the vmx value. Where X is the number of the NIC where you want to set the MAC. Set a custom property ethernetX.checkMACAddressfalse at the VM.
There is a workaround to set a MAC Address out of this range. Note the OUI (first three bytes must be as they were genereated before) as already indicated by Russell.ģ. 12:34:6:78:90:12 is not an allowed static Ethernet address. You need to delete the UUID because the MAC is actually stemed from it and will always gen the same if it is not removed.Ģ.You can set it to a static type and edit the value but it cannot be managed under a VC at the time it is edited. If you wish to use a different MAC you can set it with a few different methods.ġ.You can delete both the UUID and generated MAC in the vmx and a new unique one will be created. If the machine is managed by a Virtual Center server then the MAC is generated by it and not the vmx this is because VMotion and migration would give you a lot of trouble if the MAC was not centrally controlled. If you ever have the need to change the MAC address (physical address) of one of your VMs to do things such as transfer some MAC address dependent software t.
#VMWARE MAC ADDRESS SERIAL NUMBER#
If you do not have easy access to the back panel, you can get the appliance’s serial number by logging on to the LOM port. The serial number is on the back panel of the appliance. Three that I know of they are static, vpx and generated. A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communication on the physical network segment.
As you can see above, VMwares vSphere GUI client already has a menu for setting a static MAC address for a VM. ethernet0.addresstype 'static' ethernet0.address '00:50:56:00:00:XX' The mac address authorized can be picked up in the following range: 00:50:00:00:01 to 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF. edit the VMX file with the following lines.
#VMWARE MAC ADDRESS HOW TO#
If you want to change this default behavior and assign a static MAC address to your VM, here is how to do it. You can set the mac address with the following method. But in some cases, it is necessary to find the specific VMWare virtual machine by its IP or MAC (NIC hardware) address. There is more than one type of MAC address in the vmx file. When you create a VM on VMware ESXi, each network interface of the VM is assigned a dynamically generated MAC address. In the VMWare vSphere Client interface, you can search virtual machines by their names only.
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