Is it possible to rename a NIC in 3.5?

[HBBC]

(Test system) I started out with onboard NIC plus a dual NIC card. I then added a RAID controller and lost connectivity to the box via the SC. Removed the card with no difference so added it back in again and started rumaging through the console.

It turned out that the NIC number had been "bumped" up (I'm guessing due to PCI / IRQ stuff or similar) which had happend a couple of times due to the insertion / removing of the RAID card.

The end result is that the internal NIC (originally NIC0) is now "NIC5" which makes little sense, especially as I'm about to add another dual NIC card.

Is there any way of renaming the "NIC5" back to "NIC0" (after first removing it from an port groups etc.).

Regards,

Paul

[ctfoster]

You might want to take a look at this thread that asked a similiar question

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/112677

[Santhosh_vmware]

Hi,

Yes it is possible and without changing uplinks

Refer to following thread

http://communities.vmware.com/message/871887

regards

santhosh

[Yattong]

hey,

Check this thread out dude

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/55275

Good Luck

[espi3030]

Paul,

How about changing the vmnic used by the service console? You can do that with this:

esxcfg-vswitch -U vmnic0 vSwitchx (Where x is the vswitch to your service console) This unlinks the wrong vmnic.

esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic5 vSwitchx This links the correct vmnic