Jul 31, 2017  Eject your USB drive-it's ready to boot ESXi on supported Apple hardware. Apple Weekly Newsletter Whether you want iPhone and Mac tips or the latest enterprise-specific Apple news, we've got. Welcome back hackers, today we’re going to be visiting a subject that many of you may be familiar with, building a lab. Specifically, building a virtual lab. Normally you would use something like Oracle’s VirtualBox or VMWare Player, but today we’re going to take it a step further and use VMWare’s ESXi.ESXi is a hypervisor which comes in the form of a server operating system.

FEATURES

By consolidating multiple servers onto fewer physical devices, ESXi reduces space, power and IT administrative requirements while driving high-speed performance.

Small Footprint

With a footprint of just 150MB, ESXi lets you do more with less while minimizing security threats to your hypervisor.

Reliable Performance

Accommodate apps of any size. Configure virtual machines up to 128 virtual CPUs, 6 TB of RAM and 120 devices to satisfy all your application needs. Consult individual solution limits to ensure you do not exceed supported configurations for your environment. Learn more about configuration maximums.

Enhanced Security

Protect sensitive virtual machine data with powerful encryption capabilities. Role-based access simplifies administration, and extensive logging and auditing ensure greater accountability and easier forensic analysis.

Ecosystem Excellence

Get support for a broad ecosystem of hardware OEM vendors, technology service partners, apps, and guest operating systems.

User-Friendly Experience

Manage day-to-day administrative operations with built-in modern UI based on HTML5 standards. For customers who need to automate their operations, VMware offers both a vSphere Command Line Interface and developer-friendly REST-based APIs.

An ESXi host generates the MAC address for a virtual machine adapter when the host is not connected to vCenter Server. Such addresses have a separate VMware OUI to avoid conflicts.

The ESXi host generates the MAC address for a virtual machine adapter in one of the following cases:

• The host is not connected to vCenter Server.
• The virtual machine configuration file does not contain the MAC address and information about the MAC address allocation type.

MAC Address Format

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The host generates MAC addresses that consists of the VMware OUI 00:0C:29 and the last three octets in hexadecimal format of the virtual machine UUID. The virtual machine UUID is based on a hash calculated by using the UUID of the ESXi physical machine and the path to the configuration file (.vmx) of the virtual machine.

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Preventing MAC Address Conflicts

All MAC addresses that have been assigned to network adapters of running and suspended virtual machines on a given physical machine are tracked for conflicts.

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If you import a virtual machine with a host-generated MAC address from one vCenter Server to another, select the I Copied It option when you power on the virtual machine to regenerate the address and avoid potential conflicts in the target vCenter Server or between the vCenter Server systems.