MAC Address

In order to successfully complete any copy / clone operation for a SAP system hosted on virtual machines, a virtual infrastructure administrator should make sure that all virtual machines of the SAP system in vSphere are configured to use an automatic MAC address configuration. This option affects a target VM because it might become unavailable via a network if the network has multiple VMs with the same MAC address. To avoid this situation the target SAP system VMs should obtain a new MAC address and it can be provided by setting the source VM MAC Address settings to "Automatic".

These settings can be changed using a native vCenter client or a web-interface.