assign a different range static MAC address to Windows 2003 instances

[knizamj06]

Hi All,is there any possiblity that I can assign a different range static MAC address to Windows 2003 instances.As for now seem like only 00:50:56:00:00:00-00:50:56:3F:FF:FF that are allowed.

[weinstein5]

Welcome to the Forums - What version of ESX are you running? I beieve that was a limitation of versions prior to u3 - limiting the MAC address to only the range reserved for VMware - with u3 I think you now can use any MAC address -

[knizamj06]

Hi,

currently using ESX3.5 with VC 2.5.

[Yattong]

Hey,

There are a number of ways you can do it. Have a read of these threads

http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/cfo/2008/08/20/how-can-i-set-a-static-mac-address-for-virtual-ma...

http://vmprofessional.com/2008/01/setting-static-mac-addresses.html

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc917889.aspx

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/57993

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[Rumple]

I am pretty sure that even in the past when I P2V'd my license server on ESX 2.5 I was able to set the old physical intel card mac into the Operating system network configuration settings and it worked just fine.

Overriding the MAC within the O/S is a much better way of doing it vs doing it with the config file as only a change of the network cards inside the O/S will cause your mac to change, vs other things that can go wrong with a config