Had a question about static MAC address pools in SCVMM 2012 R2. We have two different SCVMM instances, and both were using the default MAC address pool. As we began spinning up VM's in each environment, we noticed duplicate MAC addresses were being allocated
due to both VMM instances uses the default MAC address pool. To resolve this, we've defined a new MAC address pool for each SCVMM instance that do not overlap with one another. We have to delete the default MAC address pool from SCVMM in order to full start
using the custom pools. My question - what about all the VM's we already have running with MAC addresses from the default pool? Will the VM's keep their current MAC address, even after we delete the default mac pool - or will the VM's grab a new MAC address
from the custom MAC pool? We use DHCP reservations for our VM's, so each VM having the correct MAC address is very important, and I need to understand the behavior we could expect to see when switching from the default MAC address pool to a custom one. Thanks
for the help!
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