Management Network down of ESXi.

[Mayank052011101]

Hello All,

Well my problem is because of my adventerous attitude :smileyplain::smileycry:...After the discussion with one of my friend I installed a distributed switch and selected an ESXi's uplink adapter vmnic0, this was serving the vswitch which further has vmk0 port group handling the management traffic, to my surprise the operation was successful! (I thought it would give me an error similar to what we get in ESX that you can't remove the last uplink adapter from the vSwitch having service console. ) This knocked out my ESXi out of network. I can't ping it and all I've is the tech support mode. Here I can't use vicfg  since they are not available in ESXi

Is there any way I can change the settings and connect vmnic0 back to vSwitch0? It would be great as well if I can be explained why ESXi allows to even unplug the last uplink adapter connected to vswitch (containing vmk0) which is very distructive and not allowed in ESX?

Many thanks for your response in advance.

Mak

[AndreTheGiant · Accepted solution]

You can fix it from command line with esxcfg-vswitch command:

http://www.jume.nl/esx4man/man8/esxcfg-vswitch.8.html

But you need a console access.

Andre

[Mayank052011101]

Thanks a ton!

[melwong78]

Its always good to have console access via iLOM, iLO, iDRAC, etc....

[Mayank052011101]

Yup! you are right, did as suggested and now the ESXi host is nicely showing up in my VC..

Thank you for your kind advice.