Official Documentation: MAC Address Generation on ESXi Hosts VMware vSphere 6.7.Signature: MAC address belongs to the range ConditionsĪccording to the VMware OUI allocation scheme, a MAC address has the format of 00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ, where 00:50:56 represents the VMware OUI, XX is calculated as (80 + vCenter Server ID), and YY and ZZ are random two-digit hexadecimal numbers.īased on this scheme, we can determine the vCenter Server Unique ID, from the servers' MAC address: Official Documentation: VMware ESX Server 1.5 User’s ManualĪffects products: VMware vSphere managed by vCenter Server.Official Documentation: Setting a Static MAC Address to a Virtual Machine for VMware vSphere 6.7.
