How can I get a vCloud VM's NIC type?

[wiprochris]

I'm trying to write a script that will compare the NIC type in vCloud to the NIC type in vCenter to help workaround a bug in vCloud 1.5.  I can get a vCenter VM's NIC type by getting the vCenter VM and running:

$vcvm | Get-NetworkAdapter | ft -auto
Name              Type           NetworkName MacAddress        WakeOnLanEnabled
----              ----           ----------- ----------        ----------------
Network adapter 1 EnhancedVmxnet isolated    00:50:56:01:00:33             True

I don't get the same results when doing a similar action in vCloud:

$vcdvm | Get-CINetworkAdapter

Index Primary Connected  IPAddressAllocation IPAddress       ExternalIPAddress VM

----- ------- ---------  ------------------- ---------       ----------------- --

0     True    True       Manual              192.168.10.30                     nic1

I can get all the other NIC info such as the network, IP, MAC, etc, but not the type:

($vcdvm.ExtensionData.section)[2].networkconnection

Network                 : isolated

NeedsCustomization      : False

NetworkConnectionIndex  : 0

IpAddress               : 192.168.10.30

ExternalIpAddress       :

IsConnected             : True

MACAddress              : 00:50:56:01:00:33

IpAddressAllocationMode : MANUAL

AnyAttr                 :

VCloudExtension         :

For now, I'm getting the vCloud NIC type from the vCloud database itself.  Thanks for any assistance.

I'm using VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.1 Release 1 build 793510

[jake_robinson_b · Accepted solution]

I could tell you where to find it, but there's a bug in the API that only shows it as PCNET32 anyway (eve though it could be VMXNET3). Keep doing what you are doing with the Database query. :smileygrin:

Cheers,

Jake

[Mzampo]

Hi wiprochris

did U found a solution?

[Infocrossing]

I just used PowerCLI and got the info from the db.  However, the issue was addressed by kb.vmware.com/kb/2047922