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___ >> > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
