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msantos91
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i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

If i go to my vcenter and go to the tab Netwoking, i only can see one network, named Produccion, but i have another 3, MGMT, vMotion and BCKUP. any clue why i'm not able to see my others networks?

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scott28tt
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I believe the Networking inventory view has always worked that way for standard switches - there may be other areas of the vSphere Client where the display is different, but not the Networking inventory tree.


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NicolasAlauzet
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Do you have only one ESXi?

Are you using vCenter?

Give us a little bit more information of your platform to understand.

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Lalegre
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If I remember corretcly the issue is that you do not have that network configured on all ESXi with the same name (Supposing that you are using vSphere Standard Switches)

For doing a test, configure a portgroup named test in one ESXi and then configure the same respecting all the characters on the rest of the hosts and see what happen.

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MikeStoica
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Are you using standard or distributed switch?

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msantos91
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it's a cluster with 5 hosts, i'm using vcsa 6.7 U3

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msantos91
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Standard

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scott28tt
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Are the 3 which are "missing" all used by VMkernel ports? It sounds like it from those names.

If so, they are not "networks" for VMs - they are not VM Port Groups, which is what I would expect the Networking tab to show.


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msantos91
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that is correct, those 3 are not networks for vms, but in the network tab i was able to see them always, suddenly they are no more and i wanna know why

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scott28tt
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OK so I just setup a test environment, and on standard switches the Networking inventory ONLY shows VM Port Groups.

esxi01 vSwitch0

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esxi02 vSwitch0

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Networking inventory

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msantos91
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if i understand, those vswitches used by vmkernel are not showed in the network inventory is that right? any explanation why? cause i used to see them there. i don't know if is due to the upgrade in vcsa

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scott28tt
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I believe the Networking inventory view has always worked that way for standard switches - there may be other areas of the vSphere Client where the display is different, but not the Networking inventory tree.


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msantos91
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I appreciate the clarification, really. Is there any technical documentation that indicates what you told me?

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