An administrator is virtualizing a physical application server and adding it to an existing multi- tiered vApp. The application license is currently tied to the physical NIC's MAC address, so the administrator needs to ensure the license will function properly in the virtual machine. Which two actions can the administrator take to satisfy this task? (Choose two.)

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A. Set the MAC address for the vNIC in the guest operating system. The guest OS network adapter configuration allows an administrator to manually specify a static MAC address, overriding the hypervisor-assigned address so the application license sees the original physical NIC's MAC. C. Configure the MAC address for the vNIC using the vSphere Web Client. The vSphere Web Client exposes a custom MAC address field in the virtual NIC properties of a VM, allowing the administrator to enter the exact MAC address from the physical server's NIC so the license validation succeeds.

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B. Install the physical server's NIC into the ESXi host. Installing the physical NIC into the ESXi host adds it as a physical uplink for network traffic, but it does not cause any VM's virtual NIC to inherit or present that NIC's MAC address to the guest OS.

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D. Assign the physical server NIC's MAC address in the vSphere Distributed Switch. MAC addresses are properties of individual VM virtual network adapters and cannot be assigned or configured at the vSphere Distributed Switch level; the VDS has no mechanism to set a per-VM vNIC MAC address.

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