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Gooose
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vSwitchUSB0 with attached port group IMM_Network0 - How Can I remove it

Morning,

We run ESXi 5.1 U1 on IBM hosts and I would like to know as to whether it's possible to remove the vSwitch called USB0 which has an attached port group of IMM_Network0

So I suppose I have two questions:

Question1: Is it possible to remove the vSwitch and Port Group?

Question2: If it is possible then is it okay to do it?

Many thanks

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Renmo
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The question is, are you using it ?

This is not the default switch, so noone can answer you

but you can go to the networking from home , click on the vswitch and navigate to the virtual machines tab, are there any VMs connected to it ? what are the uplinks ? what's the vlans configured?


answering these questions would help you know if you can delete it or not



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mouyaq
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‌Yes, you can remove it, but  you must disable it from AAM because if not it will appears again.

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Renmo
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In fact it's an issue with IBM servers as mouyaq mentioned, i believe the below kb would help you out

IBM Why does my VMware ESXi 5.x host have standard virtual switch vSwitchUSB0 with VMkernel port gro...

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JamesRytter
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Sorry for but could you tell me what AAM is in VMWare?  I too need to disable this as our new DELL EMC is complaining that a duplicate IP is on this IBM host.

Sorry for the 5 year gap since you wrote this!

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