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This post provides two scripts based on the shell of linux to export basic network information of your XenServer's virtual machines (VMs) , this will include the VM 's name, the device number, the MAC address and the network name of all the virtual interfaces (VIFs) of every VM of your pool, it has to be known that this software only works fine when the name of you VM s and the name of your networks have no spaces in between neither leading spaces, so rename this paramenters before using the scripts. Why should you like to save this information? In the following scenario: There are 2 sites in your company, one of them are the principal one, there you have provisioned VM 's with DHCP reserved to their MAC addresses, the alternate site is a recovery site, where you have to make work your VMs if the main site fails, as a requirement you have to have: Repplication LUNs from one site to the other, the VM 's disks have to be in a shared Storage Repository (SR) , the