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Normally the MAC address of the ESXi host is derived from the hardware MAC address of the NIC in your server. In case this failed because the VMware setup has been cloned use this:<br />
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<a href="http://www.vhersey.com/2012/08/cloned-esxi-duplicate-vmk0-mac-addresses/" rel="ugc">http://www.vhersey.com/201<wbr />2/08/clone<wbr />d-esxi-dup<wbr />licate-vmk<wbr />0-mac-addr<wbr />esses/</a> or <a href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1031111" rel="ugc nofollow">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/10<wbr />31111</a><br />
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Never tried to set my own MAC address. Don't know if this is still working in ESXi 6: <a href="https://www.bonusbits.com/wiki/HowTo:Change_the_MAC_Address_of_VMKNIC_on_ESXi_5" rel="ugc">https://www.bonusbits.com/<wbr />wiki/HowTo<wbr />:Change_th<wbr />e_MAC_Addr<wbr />ess_of_VMK<wbr />NIC_on_ESX<wbr />i_5</a>
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Do you mean the Host or a Guest VM ?
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sorry no the nics associated with a particular vm. So I guess I would change that on the host for the nics that are associated with that vm..<br />
So I guess mpfister last link would be correct?
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My bad, I thought you want to set the MAC on the ESXi host, not on a VM running on it. Andrews answer is correct.
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Ok cool. Thanks to both of you. I will try Andrews method and let you know..
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I need to setup a static MAC address on a host in VMware ESXi 6.<br />
Can anyone show me the steps that I need to do to accomplish this?
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I need to setup a static MAC address on a host in VMware ESXi 6.
Can anyone show me the steps that I need to do to accomplish this?

How to set a MAC address as a static for VMware

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.