Networking does not show up in GUI

[Yunthor]

Hello, today I was testing moving my ESX setup from one platform to another (Dell PE2950s). The first problem I ran into was my storage did not show up in VIC. I could add it, but I had to reformat it it first. I did some searching and found

echo 1 > /proc/vmware/config/LVM/EnableResignature

After I tried that and hit refresh, it found it. Now, when I go into Networking, my network setup is gone. I can click Add... and it appears in that prompt, and it shows when I do

esxcfg-vswitch -l

But it does not show in the GUI. Can I reset it somehow like I was able to with the storage?

[runclear]

What do you mean you "moved" your esx setup to another platform? If im on the same page you are, did you take a backup from one esx server and restore to another?

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[Yunthor]

I shut the server down, took out the harddrives and moved it to another identical platform, then booted it up.

[JasonBarnes]

Since all the hardware is different you will have to rebuild the networking.

Look on the /etc/vmware/esx.conf file to see if anything is in there.

that's where your configuration is kept.

[Yunthor]

Allrighty, theres a ton of

/device/000:05.0/name = "Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25e5 (rev 12) (prog-if 00 )"

/device/000:05.0/options = ""

/device/000:05.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:05.0/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:05.0/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:05.0/vendor = "8086"

/device/000:06.0/class = "060400"

/device/000:06.0/devID = "25f9"

/device/000:06.0/name = "Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f9 (rev 12) (prog-if 00 )"

/device/000:06.0/options = ""

/device/000:06.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:06.0/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:06.0/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:06.0/vendor = "8086"

/device/000:07.0/class = "060400"

/device/000:07.0/devID = "25e7"

/device/000:07.0/name = "Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25e7 (rev 12) (prog-if 00 )"

/device/000:07.0/options = ""

/device/000:07.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:07.0/subsysDevID = "0"

/device/000:07.0/subsysVendor = "0"

/device/000:07.0/vendor = "8086"

/device/000:16.0/class = "060000"

/device/000:16.0/devID = "25f0"

/device/000:16.0/name = "Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f0 (rev 12)"

/device/000:16.0/options = ""

/device/000:16.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:16.0/subsysDevID = "01b2"

/device/000:16.0/subsysVendor = "1028"

/device/000:16.0/vendor = "8086"

/device/000:16.1/class = "060000"

/device/000:16.1/devID = "25f0"

/device/000:16.1/name = "Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f0 (rev 12)"

/device/000:16.1/options = ""

/device/000:16.1/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:16.1/subsysDevID = "01b2"

/device/000:16.1/subsysVendor = "1028"

/device/000:16.1/vendor = "8086"

/device/000:16.2/class = "060000"

/device/000:16.2/devID = "25f0"

/device/000:16.2/name = "Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f0 (rev 12)"

/device/000:16.2/options = ""

/device/000:16.2/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:16.2/subsysDevID = "01b2"

/device/000:16.2/subsysVendor = "1028"

/device/000:16.2/vendor = "8086"

/device/000:17.0/class = "060000"

/device/000:17.0/devID = "25f1"

/device/000:17.0/name = "Intel Corporation: Unknown device 25f1 (rev 12)"

/device/000:17.0/options = ""

/device/000:17.0/owner = "serviceConsole"

/device/000:17.0/subsysDevID = "8086"

One of

/device/005:00.0/class = "020000"

/device/005:00.0/devID = "164c"

/device/005:00.0/irq = "16"

/device/005:00.0/name = "Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (rev 12)"

/device/005:00.0/options = ""

/device/005:00.0/owner = "vmkernel"

/device/005:00.0/subsysDevID = "01b2"

/device/005:00.0/subsysVendor = "1028"

/device/005:00.0/vendor = "14e4"

/device/005:00.0/vmkname = "vmnic0"

And then it goes on to list my Pretty Names:

/net/vswifs/vswif0 = "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-vswif0"

/net/vswifs/vswif1 = "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-vswif1"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/beacon/enable = "false"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/beacon/threshold = "1"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/beacon/timeout = "1"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/name = "vSwitch0"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/numPorts = "32"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/portgroup/child[0000]/prettyName = "Service Console"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/portgroup/child[0000]/uid = "portgroup0"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/portgroup/child[0000]/vlanId = "371"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/portgroup/child[0001]/prettyName = "VM Network"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/portgroup/child[0001]/uid = "portgroup1"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/portgroup/child[0001]/vlanId = "371"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/portgroup/child[0002]/prettyName = "SWNetwrk"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/portgroup/child[0002]/uid = "portgroup3"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/portgroup/child[0002]/vlanId = "99"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/teamPolicy/uplinks[0000]/pnic = "vmnic0"

/net/vswitch/child[0000]/uplinks/child[0000]/pnic = "vmnic0"

/net/vswitch/child[0001]/capabilities/ChecksumOffload = "true"

/net/vswitch/child[0001]/capabilities/ScatterGatherTx = "true"

/net/vswitch/child[0001]/capabilities/TcpSegmentationOffload = "false"

/net/vswitch/child[0001]/capabilities/VlanTag = "true"

/net/vswitch/child[0001]/capabilities/VlanUntag = "true"

/net/vswitch/child[0001]/name = "vSwitch1"

The entire file is too long for me to copy.