I have hundreds of VMs and I have never made any of them static. Now our network team has purchased a solution from a vendor that requires a handful of VMs with static MAC addresses. They are creating the VMs for us and want these MAC addresses beforehand. I am at a loss for how to find and reserve a handful of MACs that I can use for this without using a duplicate or using an address that VMware might hand out in the future. The only KB articles I can find on this list incorrect information.
Any ideas? I tried arbitrary MACs but it breaks networking. The MAC has to start with 00:05:56 or routing is hosed. And that is the same prefix that the auto MACs start with by default.