VMware states the following about automatic MAC address assignment:
The MAC address of a powered-off virtual machine is not checked against running or suspended virtual machines. Therefore it is possible, but unlikely, that when a virtual machine is powered on again, it can get a different MAC address. This is due to a conflict with a virtual machine that was powered on when this virtual machine was powered off.
When they say "possible, but unlikely"...does anyone know just how likely this is? Would it be based on the number of VMs in the datacenter? (i.e. - likely with thousands of VMs). Has anyone had this occur? Is this a real issue that we need to be concerned about?
