MAC Pool

A MAC Pool provides ranges of MAC addresses that Intersight assigns to vNIC interfaces. It ensures globally unique MAC addresses across the UCS domain. A separate pool is typically defined for each fabric (A and B) to keep the address spaces distinct.

Location in Intersight GUI: Pools » MAC

Diagram

Classes

pools (compute.intersight.organizations)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
mac	List	[mac]	No

mac (compute.intersight.organizations.pools)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
name	String	Regex: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.:-]{1,64}$	Yes
description	String		No
managed	Boolean	true, false	No	true
tags	List	[tags]	No
mac_blocks	List	[mac_blocks]	Yes

tags (compute.intersight.organizations.pools.mac)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
key	String		Yes
value	String		Yes

mac_blocks (compute.intersight.organizations.pools.mac)

Name	Type	Constraint	Mandatory	Default Value
from	MAC		Yes
size	Integer	min: 1, max: 1024	No
to	MAC		No

Examples

Example-1: The example below demonstrates two MAC pools, one per fabric, each providing 1000 addresses from the Cisco OUI range.

compute:
  intersight:
    organizations:
      - name: MyOrganization
        pools:
          mac:
            - name: mac-pool-a
              mac_blocks:
                - from: "00:25:B5:AF:10:00"
                  size: 1000

              tags:
                - key: env
                  value: prod
            - name: mac-pool-b
              description: MAC pool for fabric B vNICs
              mac_blocks:
                - from: "00:25:B5:BF:10:00"
                  size: 500
                - from: "00:25:B5:BF:20:00"
                  size: 500

Example-2: Tag a MAC pool for environment and team tracking. The tags field is supported on all pools using the same syntax.

compute:
  intersight:
    organizations:
      - name: MyOrganization
        pools:
          mac:
            - name: mac-pool-a
              tags:
                - key: env
                  value: prod
                - key: team
                  value: compute-infra
              mac_blocks:
                - from: "00:25:B5:AF:10:00"
                  size: 1000