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Identifying the ESX Service Console MAC address

This article helps you identify the MAC address associated with an ESX Service Console.

To determine the MAC address of an ESX host's administration interface, run the command:

# ifconfig |grep -i hw

The output appears similar to:

vswif0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:41:5A:59

The MAC address is found in the first line after HWaddr. In this example, the MAC address is 00:50:56:41:5a:59.

Note: The ESX host uses self-generated addresses starting with 00:50:56 (as opposed to the burned-in address of the interface itself).

Alternatively, review the outputted information and MAC addresses from the command esxcfg-nics -l.

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