Get and Set Physical NIC Properties

[cpaterik]

In the vSphere client, you can display and set some properties for physical nics. What is the easiest way to display all the physical nics on an ESX host? A cmdlet would be great.

How do you set the properties of a physical nic in PowerCLI?

[ae_jenkins]

Hi

I'm not sure 100% what you are looking for but to display the basic physical NIC information:

Get-Vmhost "YourHostName" | Get-vmhostnetworkadapter -physical

Or

Get-Vmhost "YourHostName" | Get-vmhostnetworkadapter -physical | format-list

To set information (using the above example):

$VMHostNW = Get-Vmhost "YourHostName" | Get-vmhostnetworkadapter -physical

Set-vmhostnetworkadapter -physicalnic $vmhostnw -autonegotiate

This would convert all your physical NICs on the ESX host you specified to Autonegotiate network speed.

If you have a more specific need, please post it

Thanks

Running PowerCLI 4.0U1

[ae_jenkins]

Hi

I'm not sure 100% what you are looking for but to display the basic

physical NIC information:

Get-Vmhost "YourHostName" | Get-vmhostnetworkadapter -physical

Or

Get-Vmhost "YourHostName" | Get-vmhostnetworkadapter -physical |

format-list

To set information (using the above example):

$VMHostNW = Get-Vmhost "YourHostName" | Get-vmhostnetworkadapter

-physical

Set-vmhostnetworkadapter -physicalnic $vmhostnw -autonegotiate

This would convert all your physical NICs on the ESX host you specified

to Autonegotiate network speed.

If you have a more specific need, please post it

Thanks

[ae_jenkins]

Oh, those cmdlets only work with vSphere ESX hosts. I'm running

PowerCLI 4.0 U1

[ae_jenkins]

Whoops! Sorry for all the multiple postings