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most of the time this is done for a networking scanning application and the like. &nbsp;Keep in mind that you're normally on a vswitch that's connected to the network and we've had issues with applications such as this. &nbsp;For one customer we added a physical NIC to the ESXi host and attached the physical nic to the VM for this type of capability
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most of the time this is done for a networking scanning application and the like.  Keep in mind that you're normally on a vswitch that's connected to the network and we've had issues with applications such as this.  For one customer we added a physical NIC to the ESXi host and attached the physical nic to the VM for this type of capability

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I have a vm that needs it's nic to be in promiscuous mode.<br />
How do I make this change or check to see if it is already in this mode?
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I have a vm that needs it's nic to be in promiscuous mode.
How do I make this change or check to see if it is already in this mode?

Need to set a vmware nic for a vm to promiscuous mode

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.