diff MAC address on HP-VM

[fizan]

Hi Experts,

one the running guest i took a Ignite backup with the assigned MAC -address, then i had deleted the Vswitch, the whole VM & from the scratch created a new switch & stoage devices, now when i try to boot from the ignite server in my VM-Guest when i intrepput the boot sequence & try to boot from LANBOOT select, i cannot see the old MAC id in which i had taken a backup..

Can you advice where i need to change the MAC id as old one in the new Vswitch, so that it can read the old backup and boot up to the newly cretaed Guest.

Thanks

[Torsten.]

You should adjust the ignite server to reflect the new MAC.

[fizan]

Thanks a lot, but there is a way to define it in the Guest.

Can you suggest me how to do in the Guest end..

Bcoz in ignite server end i cannot modify anything.

[Kapil Jha]

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Virtualization/During-ignite-install-HPVM-Guest-crash-SSN-ASSERT-Assertion/m-p/4599063#M2039

your situation is just that you need to tell ignite server that this is the new mac address, and it would take care of things.

BR,
Kapil+

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

when you assign a vswitch to a VM, you are able to specify your own MAC adress in the 3rd field of the resource statment:
hpvmmodify -a network:lan::vswitch:

So your line might look like this:
hpvmmodify -a network:avio_lan:,,02-02-03-04-05-06:vswitch:net1
Where 02-02-03-04-05-06 is your MAC address

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You will probably need to delete the old client directory on the Ignite server, and add, via the menus provided by /opt/ignite/bin/ignite application.

SEP

[fizan]

Hi Melvyn & Protter 1000 Thanks for your timely help...

This is what excatly am looking for...

Thanks but we already edited the ignite server entries & made the recovery with warnings..

Thanks.

[fizan]

Thanks Melvyn...

Thanks but we already edited the ignite server entries & made the recovery with warnings.