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12c Monitoring MAC address conflicts across Guest VMs using Cloud Control. (Doc ID 1929801.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager for Virtualization - Version 12.1.0.4.0 and later
Private Cloud Appliance - Version 2.1.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

This note is to address the possible situations and solutions when conflicting MAC addresses are used by Guest VMs from multiple Oracle VM Managers being monitored by the same Cloud Control system.

Solution

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In this Document
Goal
Solution
 1. Recommendation for MAC address allocation across OVM Managers
 2. MAC address conflict issue
 3. Monitoring MAC address conflicts across Guest VMs in EM
 4. Avoidance of unrelated target deletion
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