ESXi 6.5 - Used cli to add a port group fine, however the web ui or vcenter web ui doesn't show port group

[ye9]

Hi all, on Esxi 6.0/6.5 I used the following cli fine, and esxcfg-vswitch -l show everything was added correctly.  However the web ui from the esxi host or vcenter web ui doesn't show the port group.  Could some one help me with this without rebooting the esxi host.

   esxcfg-vswitch -A VLAN_100 vSwitch0

   esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v 100 -p VLAN_100

Thank you.

[parmarr · Accepted solution]

Refer: https://ikb.vmware.com/draft/2144934, http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50%2FGUID-EBB03F...

[ye9]

Hello Parmarr, actually my esxi host is running vsphere 6.5 and the vcenter 6.5 is a Linux appliance.  What I did was, I removed the portgroup from the cli and re-added it from web gui fine.

So I guess at this point the cli version isn't sync up with web gui code or something.  I would like the ability to use the cli for certain tasks and after the web gui should be in sync.

[JeremyLCrabtree]

That "Correct Answer" is for VMWare 5, which makes it NOT the correct answer.

I found the solution for out vCenter 6 environment was to put the affected ESX host into maintenance mode and reboot it. That caused the GUI (and fat client) to see the newly added VLANs and port groups.