How to retrieve the details of a NIC card on esxi ...

gdmersh · ‎02-28-2021

Hi ,

I want to find a command to retrieve details of a NIC card.

I tried

esxcli network nic list

but it does not show some details like speed , version and firmware. Also it is difficult to understand the model and vendor.

Is there any other CLI?

Thank you

Dee

harry89 · ‎02-28-2021

Hey

esxcli network nic get -n vmnic. #Command will give you firmware details and driver details

esxcli network nic stats get #Command will you give current statstics of the specified vmnic

Harry
VCIX-DCV6.5 ,VCIX-NV6 , VCAP-CMA7
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gdmersh · ‎03-01-2021

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

This is what I get when I run

esxcli network nic list

Name PCI Device Driver Admin Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description

status status

------ ------------ ------ ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

vmnic0 0000:01:00.0 ntg3 Up Up 1000 Full c8:1f:66:e9:4b:xx 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet

vmnic1 0000:01:00.1 ntg3 Up Down 0 Half c8:1f:66:e9:4b:xx 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet

vmnic2 0000:02:00.0 ntg3 Up Down 0 Half c8:1f:66:e9:4b:xx 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet

vmnic3 0000:02:00.1 ntg3 Up Down 0 Half c8:1f:66:e9:4b:xx 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet

vmnic4 0000:04:00.0 bnx2 Up Down 0 Half e8:39:35:b2:cc:xx 1500 QLogic Corporation NC382T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter

vmnic5 0000:04:00.1 bnx2 Up Down 0 Half e8:39:35:b2:cc:xx 1500 QLogic Corporation NC382T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter

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This output only shows the speed of first NIC 1000mb/s right? How can I know the speed of other NICs. Why is it showing the speed as 0 for vmnic 1 to vmnic5. On linux if I run lshw to detect these nics, I see the speed of all nics as 1Gbit/s

Thank you

Dee

Ajay1988 · ‎03-01-2021

That shows Link Status down .

Check https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2006074 and get the Link Status up

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Rooker1 · ‎03-01-2021

Get the driver info. esxcli network nic get -n vmnic1.
Get an uplink stats. esxcli network nic stats get -n vmnic1.
Get the Netqueue stats. vsish -e get /net/pNics/vmnic1/stats.

To do so, SSH to the pertinent host and run the esxcli network nic list command. Here we can see a record of devices and general information. Now that we have a list of the installed NICs, we can pull detailed configuration information. Run the esxcli network nic get command specifying the name of the NIC necessary.

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gdmersh · ‎03-02-2021

Hi Ajay,

Thanks for the reply. So I'll see the speed if the link status is up right?

I have another question.

In the following output that I get from esxcli network nic list, How do I identify which NICs are on motherboard and which ones are in PCI slots? I know that in this particular case first four are on the motherboard and last 2 are in PCI slot. But how do I know that from the output of this command. Or is there another CLI for that.

Thanks

Dee