Congrats to Mike Preston and Proactive DRS/DPM w/ vCenter Operations

Way to Go to Mike Preston (mwpreston), winner of the VMware 2012 Open Innovations Contest. Mike's idea, "Proactive DRS/DPM w/ vCenter Operations” was the grand prize winner picked from over one hundred and twenty other submissions to vmware. Mike is a Systems Analyst for a public school board in Ontario Canada. Other than being Montreal Canadians fan, he seems like a great guy with a bright future in virtualization. #CanadiansSuck #GoLeafs

 Keep up the great work Mike and don't go "Virtually Insane" on us just yet.

Check Mike Preston out @ http://blog.mwpreston.net/

Command Line to Find MAC Address on VMware ESXi Servers


Find MAC Addresses on ESXi Servers


How to locate MAC addresses on VMware ESXi servers using command line interface.



  1. Enable root login for SSH/SCP clients (click for my blog on how to enable RL)
  2. Login to VMware ESXi via SSH
  3. Run the command-  vim-cmd hostsvc/net/info | grep "mac ="
Now you have your list of MAC addresses. Login to VMWare vSphere client and match the MAC addresses to the Network Adapters section.

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