Find MAC Addresses on ESXi Servers
How to locate MAC addresses on VMware ESXi servers using command line interface.
- Enable root login for SSH/SCP clients (click for my blog on how to enable RL)
- Login to VMware ESXi via SSH
- 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.
vim-cmd hostsvc/net/info | grep "mac ="