Is it possible to keep same MAC address while restoring VM from Netbackup? (Restored VM should have same MAC address by default)

[UmaMaheshTallur]

Hi Friends,

We have Linux API appliances running on ESXi 5.5 and using Netbackup 7.5 for snapshot level backups, But whenever we restored VM by using existing snapshot backup, every time MAC address is getting changed.

Is this a normal behavior or we can change anything to restore with same MAC address ?

Also just a note that we are not looking to change MAC address manually after restoring the VM.

Thankq.

[erikverbruggen]

It is possible to set a fixed MAC address in the .vmx configuration file (Setting a static MAC address for a virtual NIC (219) | VMware KB). What we have done for a customer is use PowerCLI to get the current auomatically assigned MAC address and configure this in the .vmx configuration file as a static MAC address.

[Sakkanan]

Use windows MAC spoofing and assign the MAC Address value for the NIC card in  Windows Operating system.

When VM server is restored Operating system still will have the same mac address.