Comments on: VMWare: how to set static MAC address ESX?

By: Nguyen Viet Anh

Nguyen Viet Anh — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:43:11 +0000

place file vmx in VMware ESXi 4.1

By: mea_john

mea_john — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:13:30 +0000

Solution is working on ESX 4.1u1

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:22:12 +0000

is anyone tried to change the MAC from “00:50:56:00:00:00-00:50:56:3F:FF:FF” range as static for VMXnet 3 type NIC?

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By: Reza Toghraee

Reza Toghraee — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:07:03 +0000

Perfect man, Thanks so MUCH.!!

By: Tim Nordloh

Tim Nordloh — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:45:39 +0000

I found this same error manifested when the filesystem got full, due to a vmware.log. Anyone know how to disable this logfile?

By: chukaman

chukaman — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:03:06 +0000

Awesome this rocks. Working happily on ESX 3.5.0 Build 153875 for me as well. I barely obeyed your instructions, but what I needed was:

ethernet0.checkMACAddress = “false”

Thanks

By: Philipp

Philipp — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:41:00 +0000

Thank you for this info.
I can confirm it works with ESX 3.5.0 Build 153875.

By: Ivan Versluis

Ivan Versluis — Sat, 09 May 2009 07:00:18 +0000

Well I got this solution working when migrating the VMWare Server virtual machine to ESX i.

Please make sure that you:

Remove virtual machine from inventory

Download the vmx file from datastore to local drive
Delete vmx file from datastore

Edit the vmx file with Notepad++ with configuration settings above
Upload the new vmx file to datastore

By: guy

guy — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:11:11 +0000

so i’ve esx 3.5 U4. this solution is not working.

By: Ivan Versluis

Ivan Versluis — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:24:57 +0000

ethernet0.present = “true”
ethernet0.networkName = “vlan1″
ethernet0.checkMACAddress = “false”
ethernet0.addressType = “static”
ethernet0.Address = “00:0C:29:B0:27:E1″

This is the config I used for the NIC interface. Please check on your end.

By: Radek

Radek — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:52:24 +0000

VMWare ESX 3.5i U4

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Error
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00:0E:2E:0C:07:8F is not an allowed static Ethernet address.
Invalid MAC address specified.
Failed to configure ethernet1.