vmnic not showing up as network adapter

[kw1985]

It's running on a normal home use pc.

When I SSH in, it does show up as vmnic. However, it's not showing up as network adapter when using vsphere client. Anyone seem such issue before?

~ # lspci | grep vmnic
000:000:25.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection [vmnic0]
000:001:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller [vmnic1]
000:001:00.1 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller [vmnic2]

[Virtualinfra]

# lspci | grep vmnic
000:000:25.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection [vmnic0]
000:001:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller [vmnic1]
000:001:00.1 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller [vmnic2]

See in the above list the VMNIC are displayed in the end.. i have bolded it.

Also use the below command to list hte vmnics alone.

#esxcfg-nics -l

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[kw1985]

~ # esxcfg-nics -l
Name    PCI           Driver      Link Speed     Duplex MAC Address       MTU    Description
vmnic0  0000:00:19.00 e1000e      Up   100Mbps   Full   00:21:86:2e:12:65 1500   Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection
~ #

only 1 shows up in the end, very weird problem...

[Virtualinfra]

To be clear.. only Physical server ESXi host network adapter will be shown here..

It means that you have got only one VMNIC ( physical adapter)..

virtual machine network adapter wont be shown here..

What is the exact problem.. put a screen shot of network properties of esxi connected via vsphere client.