


In addition, VMware Workstation does its best, but cannot guarantee, to automatically assign unique MAC addresses for virtual machines running on multiple host systems. In most cases, the virtual machine is assigned the same MAC address every time it is powered on, so long as the virtual machine is not moved (the path and filename for the virtual machine's configuration file must remain the same) and no changes are made to certain settings in the configuration file. The software guarantees that virtual machines are assigned unique MAC addresses within a given host system. A MAC address is the unique address assigned to each Ethernet network device. When a virtual machine is powered on, VMware Workstation automatically assigns each of its virtual network adapters an Ethernet MAC address. Maintaining and Changing the MAC Address of a Virtual Machine For information on MAC address generation in later versions, see:ESX/ESXi 3.x: The Setting Up MAC Addresses section of the ESX Server 3 Configuration Guide.ESX/ESXi 4.x: The MAC Addresses section of the ESXi 4.x Server Configuration guide.ESXi 5.x: The MAC Address Management section of the vSphere 5 Networking Guide.ESXi 6.0: The MAC Address.
VMWARE MAC ADDRESS RANGE 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. When you create a VM on VMware ESXi, each network interface of the VM is assigned a dynamically generated MAC address.

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