Same here, we'd love being able to use LLDP =)

Hear Hear.

This would definitely be a good enhancement. As many of our clients have Procurves or other LLDP compliant switches, as are Cisco shops.

The vSphere 4.0 API has a setting to toggle the LinkDiscoveryProtocol and there are two valid options, one is CDP and the other is LLDP. Does anyone know how to change that value?

https://vmw.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.host.LinkDiscoveryProtocolConfig.ProtocolType.html#lldp

Hello!

Has anyone mastered the LLDP with vSphere? Is it possible? Would love to have the feature.

Thanks

This would be most useful for those of us with newer Procurves that will do LLDP but not CDP.

I created a Powershell Script to attempt to set the LLDP property mentioned, and I got a "The Operation is not supported on the object." This is on Enterprise Plus, and setting the cdp options for the same variables work fine.

So, looks like this is definitely in the works, but it's been disabled probably because it just wasn't stable enough or something. Here's hoping Update 1 or Update 2 will enable it.

FYI, here's the script for reference:

$vcenter = connect-viserver vcenter

##function set-vSwitchLinkDiscovery {

#Variables
$vSwitchName = "vSwitch0"
$linkProtocol = "lldp"
$linkOperation = "both"
$VMHost = "myhost"

#Get the specification for the vSwitch
$networkview = (get-vmhostnetwork -vmhost $VMHost | get-view)
$vSwitchSpec = ($networkView.NetworkConfig.vSwitch | Where {$_.Name -eq $vSwitchName}).Spec

#Set Protocol Type and Operation
$vSwitchSpec.Bridge.LinkDiscoveryProtocolConfig.protocol = "lldp"
$vSwitchSpec.Bridge.LinkDiscoveryProtocolConfig.operation = "both"

#Commit Changes
$networkview.updateVirtualSwitch($vSwitchName,$vSwitchSpec)

##}