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2
Click the Add (
) icon and select MAC Addresses.
The Add MAC Addresses window opens.
3 Type a name for the address group.
4 (Optional) Type a description for the address group.
5 Type the MAC addresses to be included in the group.
6 Select Enable inheritance to allow visibility at underlying scopes if you want the MAC address group
to propagate down to objects in the selected datacenter.
7 Click OK.
Edit a MAC Address Group
A MAC address group can be edited at the scope it was defined at. For example, if a MAC address group was
defined at the global scope, it cannot be edited at the vShield Edge scope.
Procedure
1 Do one of the following.
Option Description
To edit a MAC address group at the
global scope
a In the vShield Manager user interface, click Object Library from the
vShield Manager inventory panel.
b Ensure that you are in the Grouping tab.
To edit a MAC address group at the
datacenter scope
a In the vSphere Client, go to Inventory > Hosts & Clusters.
b Select a datacenter resource from the inventory panel.
c Click the vShield tab.
d From the General tab, select the Grouping tab.
To edit a MAC address group at the
port group scope
a In the vSphere Client, go to Inventory > Networking.
b Select a network from the inventory panel.
c Click the vShield tab.
To edit a MAC address group at the
vShield Edge scope
a In the vSphere Client, go to Inventory > Hosts & Clusters.
b Select a datacenter resource from the inventory panel.
c Click the Network Virtualization tab.
d Click the Edges tab.
e Double-click a vShield Edge instance.
f Click the Configure tab.
2 Click the Grouping Objects tab.
3
Select the group that you want to edit and click the Edit ( ) icon.
4 In the Edit MAC Addresses dialog box, make the appropriate changes.
5 Click OK.
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