How are the nic cards picked in ESX 4.1

[virtualman22]

Hi, I need to understand how are the pci devices like nic cards named in esx 4.1 as vmnic0, vmnic1....

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Thanks

[DSTAVERT]

Could you provide a little more information here. Is this a what determines which NIC becomes vmnic0, vmnic1.

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[a_p_]

Can you please clarify your question.

You are asking for the names and also answering your own question!?

Or did you mean the relationship between network cards PCI slots and the vmnic numbers?

André

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[virtualman22]

Sorry I was not clear. I mean the relationship between Pci slots and nic numbers. My understanding is there must be some file with all the pci ids, it might be giving the lowest id to vmnic0 and so on...

I would like to get more detail on this.

Thanks

[a_p_]

Maybe http://communities.vmware.com/message/980329 can give you a hint.

André

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[AndreTheGiant]

I've not test too much, but seems that vmnic0 is the NIC that you have selected as "management", then the others are ordered in base of the PCI enumeration.

If you remove some NIC and add new, then you will have some hole (because old vmnic will not reused).

Andre