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Any concerns with removing and adding virtual NIC's on a VM Guest with Exchange Server 2013?

We have Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2012 on a VM 5.5 U2 Host. The guest is using the standard Intel virtual NIC and we'd like to remove that NIC and add a VMXNET3 NIC in its place. Are there any concerns or ill effects pertaining to Exchange 2013 in doing this switch?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Other than Exchange will go offline, whilst you do the switch, for several seconds....

If you users have Cache Mode enabled, they'll not notice!

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Thanks Andrew. We would take the server down first of course. I am more looking at concerns in regards to, say, the Exchange server binding to the MAC address in some way where if we change the NIC's and get a new MAC that it might either have an issue or require some reconfiguration. I can't think of anything like that being an issue but thought I would throw that question out there to be sure.

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