I have a port group named Backup added to a VMKernel port, attached to a separate vSwitch. I use this group to separate the backup network from the rest of my network, with a VLAN defined on the physical switch the ESX host is connected to. This vSwitch is connected to vmnic0, and I use vmnic1 for normal traffic.
When I first created this port group, I had 6 different VMs, each with two virtual network adapters, one connected to the normal network, and one to the Backup. However, when I edit their settings in VI Client, the second adapter looks as though it's not connected to any port group, when I know it's connected to Backup. They've been working fine though, as they can ping each other and the backup server within IP range I'm using for the backup network.
Unfortunately, I didn't document how I added these guest network adapters to the Backup port group, and now that I'm trying to add a second adapter to another VM, I can't select the Backup group as the "Network label" in VI Client. I've looked through documentation on the esxcfg commands to see if this is possible via the command line, but none of the listed commands seem to be what I'm looking for.
Any help?
For reference, here's the result from esxcfg-vswitch:
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Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports MTU Uplinks
vSwitch3 64 8 9000 vmnic0
PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
Backup 0 5 vmnic0
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And here's the result from esxcfg-vmnic:
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Interface Port Group IP Address Netmask MAC
Address
vmk0 Backup 10.100.50.2 255.255.255.0 00:50:56:71:95:22
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