How Do You Find The portgroupID for a Distributed Port Group

[RonWF]

I created a Distributed Port Group to link an ESG and a Load Balancer together.  However, in assigning vNICs on those devices to it I hit the bug described in https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151711.  The workaround is to use an API call to PUT the information needed to assign the IP address.  That would mean PUTting the following:

<vnic>

      <label>vNic_4</label>

      <name>OBVIOUS_FAKE_NAME</name>

      <addressGroups>

           <addressGroup>

               <primaryAddress>1.2.3.4</primaryAddress>

               <subnetMask>255.255.255.240</subnetMask>

               <subnetPrefixLength>28</subnetPrefixLength>

           </addressGroup>

        </addressGroups>

       <mtu>1500</mtu>

       <type>uplink</type>

       <isConnected>true</isConnected>

       <index>4</index>

       <portgroupId>dvportgroup-12345</portgroupId>

       <portgroupName>OBVIOUS_FAKE_GROUP_NAME</portgroupName>

       <enableProxyArp>false</enableProxyArp>

       <enableSendRedirects>true</enableSendRedirects>

    </vnic>

I know the "portgroupName", but how do I determine the portgroupId?

[Sreejesh_D · Accepted solution]

the easiest option would be to extract the ID from vCenter Web Client (Flash) URL.

Once you login to the Web client navigate to Networking > dvSwitch  and select the portgroup. You can find the portgroup ID from the URL.

https://<vCenter IP or Name >/vsphere-client/?csp#extensionId%3Dvsphere.core.dvPortgroup.gettingStarted%3Bcontext%3Dcom.vmware.core.model%253A%253AServerObjectRef~a8cbf0d9-050a-411e-97c8-3e0fadaac22f%253ADistributedVirtualPortgroup%253Advportgroup-102~core

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