Determine correct network adapter PCI bus for Service Console??

[tlyczko]

Are PCI bus numbers in hex or decimal??

I ask because I put Service Console on the wrong NIC (0b.00.00) and I want to figure out which is the lowest NIC to move it to.

I have the following:

Internal Broadcom card: 03.00.00 and 05.00.00 -- I want these to become vmic0 and vmnic1

External Intel card: 0b.00.00 and 0b.00.0 -- I want these to become vmic3 and vmnic4

Am I correct that 03.00.00 is the lowest-numbered NIC PCI bus??

Once I know this I will add this 03.00.00 vmnic to the current SC vSwitch then reassign SC to it, then remove the other vmNIC to it.

Also, how is it possible to re-assign vmnic numbers to different NICs??

Say vmnic0 is on the 0b.00.00 NIC and I really want vmnic0 to be on 03.00.00, how do I do this?? -- command and syntax??

Thank you, Tom

[weinstein5 · Accepted solution]

Yes 03:00:00 is the lowest PCI address - 05:00:00 is next, 0b:00:## is next - its numbered in Hex - you can either reinstall ESX and select the correct Nic or you might check out here how to renumber - http://vmware-land.com/Vmware_Tips.html#Net4

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[tlyczko]

Hello, thanks for replying.

I will try changing esx.conf, then if necessary re-install.

Thank you, Tom