Parker: am going through the post suggested by you and will back to you shortly.

Amit: meanwhile am following the way suggested by you...i had deleted my all virtual switches over esx and now am logging to esx through ILO and created a new virtual switch with esxcfg-vswitch -a vswitch0 command and then i tried to create port group over this cirtual switch and i used esxcfg-vswitch -A "service console" vswitch0 command and am able to see that with esxcfg-vswitch -l command .

I hope that service console is created..but i dnt know how to provide the port group "service console " Ip address as to take frm DHCP.

As whn am trying to use command esxcfg-vswif -l comamnd am getting simply :

--root@server root--# esxcfg-vswif -l

name port group ip adress netmask broadcast enabled DHCP

and nothng below these names...its blank..so i suppose smthg more to configure.

Apart from this will you please also answer my another question:

1. whats diff. between creating service console port by command : esxcfg-vswitch -A "service console" vswitch0 and esxcfg-vswitch -p "Service Console" vSwitch0 ?

2. Whats diff. between esxcfg-vswitch and vswif?

Also output of command :

esxcfg-vswitch -p "Service Console" vSwitch0 gives bad command in this scenario!

i had just started doing all through command prompt..so new is this arena

my problem is yet solved but still am looking for answer:

whats the diff between vswif and vswitch...as far i knw vswif is for creating service console port...will you guys put more stress over it?

Also whats the diff between creating the service console port group and creating new vswif?

also the diff between creating service console with -p and -A command