Thanks for the links! I did an ipconfig /all and verified that the MAC is not changing after rebooting.
The document from the first URL you sent indicates that the that the OUI prefix for an ESX server would always be 00:0C:29 for automatically generated MAC addresses and 00:50:56 for manually assigned MAC addresses. The server's MAC begins with 00:50:56 which is consistent for a manually assigned MAC and does not match any of the Host IDs that we have seen. I'll submit a issue with BMC in the morning if the Network team can't track back these Host IDs. Thanks, Jason On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Axton <[email protected]> wrote: > ** It would help if I read the whole email. VMWare sets the mac address of > the virtual nic's. Make sure a mac is set in the vmware configuration for > that virtual host. There are some caveats. See the links below. > > http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx21admin_MACaddress.html > > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=507 > > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1968 > > Axton Grams > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Axton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What OS? >> >> Axton Grams >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Jason Miller <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> ** >>> >>> Has anybody experienced the ARS Host ID changing each time the server is >>> rebooted. This behavior is happens with 7.5 FCS and patch 1. It is a new >>> Windows 2008 server on VMware ESX. I checked with our server team and they >>> said that there is no way that the application should be able to see >>> anything other than the MAC address that VMware assigns the server, which >>> doesn’t change after a reboot. >>> >>> Here are examples of the Host IDs that I have seen in the last few days. >>> The interesting thing is that only the first 4 characters change each time. >>> 30F620524153 >>> 3A7B20524153 >>> AAF920524153 >>> 7C5720524153 >>> Does anybody know if the Host ID for 7.5 is composed of something other >>> than the MAC address? >>> >>> Jason >>> __Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" >>> html___ >> >> >> > __Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" html___ > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
