Do to determine which VM's are bound to a network adapter(s) in a vSwitch

[montespcs]

Lets say for instance I have an ESX server 3.02/3.0.3 with 4 NIC's grouped to a single vSwitch. I have many VM's on this ESX server.

During production hours a physical NIC is having problems sending and receiving data.

How do I determine which vmnic each VM is bound to? Obviously VirtualCenter doesn't contain this data. Where would I look in the Service Console to find this data? I would assume that the /proc folder would contain some sort of data/info to map the VM's to their associated physical NIC?

Thanks!

[Texiwill]

Hello,

unfortunately this information is not available in /proc. The only way to find this out is to monitor the traffic on the pNICs (pSwitch side) and determine which VM by the traffic used. What load balancing mode are you using? Also, do you only have 4 pNICs in the host?

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
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