A system administrator has an application installed on a physical machine that is licensed to the
MAC address of the physical NIC. This system needs to be virtualized.
What two methods could an administrator use to ensure the license will function in the virtual
machine? (Choose two.)
A.
Manually set the MAC address for the vNIC in the guest OS
B.
Install the NIC from the physical server into the ESXi host
C.
Manually set the MAC address for the vNIC using the Web Client
D.
Configure the physical server’s MAC address in the virtual switch
Explanation:
A and C seems right to me
A+C it is.
Answers aren’t that great –
http://defaultreasoning.com/2011/06/09/assign-a-static-mac-address-to-a-virtual-machine-on-vmware-infrastructure/
you dont have the option a
manually set the mac address forthe vnic using the web client you can do
you can also set it in the vswitch so ill select c and d although i can see the temptation for a and c. this must be a trick question to see how we think
Eli, the mac address cannot be assigned to a virtual switch.
There a some ways to change the MAC address from within the Guest OS
http://www.howtogeek.com/192173/how-and-why-to-change-your-mac-address-on-windows-linux-and-mac/
what happen when i pass tru the device to guest using option B
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc%2FGUID-E5C514B3-32CC-4033-AA16-FAD9B07CC3A4.html