In this post , we cover a practically working command line option in VMware esxi on how to View VM host server NIC port status , enable or disable it.
Command to view the network NIC ports list
/bin # esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------ ------------- --------- ---- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- -------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:006:00.0 igb Up 1000 Full 1c:a1:82:18:7c:31 1500 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic1 0000:006:00.1 igb Up 1000 Full 1c:a1:82:18:7c:12 1500 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic2 0000:006:00.2 igb Down 0 Half 1c:a1:82:18:7c:22 1500 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic3 0000:006:00.3 igb Down 0 Half 1c:a1:82:18:7c:75 1500 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
vusb0 Pseudo cdc_ether Up 10 Half 1e:a1:81:31:1c:71 1500 Unknown Unknown
Command to view the details of a specific port
/bin # esxcli network nic get -n vmnic0
Advertised Auto Negotiation: true
Advertised Link Modes: 10baseT/Half, 10baseT/Full, 100baseT/Half, 100baseT/Full, 1000baseT/Full
Auto Negotiation: true
Cable Type: Twisted Pair
Current Message Level: 7
Driver Info:
Bus Info: 0000:06:00.0
Driver: igb
Firmware Version: 1.61, 0x8000090e
Version: 5.0.5.1
Link Detected: true
Link Status: Up
Name: vmnic0
PHYAddress: 1
Pause Autonegotiate: true
Pause RX: false
Pause TX: false
Supported Ports: TP
Supports Auto Negotiation: true
Supports Pause: true
Supports Wakeon: true
Transceiver: internal
Wakeon: MagicPacket(tm)
Command to bring down a specific network interface
/bin # esxcli network nic down -n vmnic3
Command to bring back a specific network interface
/bin # esxcli network nic up -n vmnic3
Hope this is useful to some VMware command geeks.
