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On the Name page of the Create VM Network Wizard, provide a name, and specify
a logical network. Figure 3-16 shows the creation of a new network named Adatum
Virtual Machine Network that connects to the logical network named Adatum Logical
Network.
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FIGURE 3-16
VM network name
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VIRTUAL MACHINE NETWORKS
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A MAC address pool gives you a pool of MAC addresses that can be assigned to virtual ma-
chine network adapters across a group of virtualization hosts. Without MAC address pools,
virtual machines are assigned MAC addresses on a per-virtualization host basis. While un-
likely, it is possible that in environments with a very large number of virtualization hosts, that
the same MAC address may be assigned by separate virtualization hosts. Using a central MAC
address pool ensures that doesn't happen.
When creating a MAC address pool, you specify a starting and an ending MAC address
range. Figure 3-17 shows the MAC address range in the default VMM MAC address pool.
