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Unable to connect to ESXi 6 directly via IP from from desktop client

March 25, 2015, 1:14 pm
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I have ESXi 6 set up on a small lab environment of three computers, including the visor.  I am connecting directly to the host via IP (192.168.0.230) from a vSphere 6 desktop client. Note that I am not using vCenter Server in my environment, this is a direct connection to the ESXi host.  This is a new ESXi 6 setup with no custom configuration hosting only a couple VMs, as vanilla and basic of a setup as you can get.

From the first time I tried connecting to the visor I had sporadic connection issues. When attempting to connect to the visor, 9/10 times it does not connect and gives me this error:

"vSphere Client could not connect to 192.168.0.230.  An unknown connection error occurred (the request failed because the remote server took too long to respond). (The operation has timed out.)"

However occasionally it will log me in without a problem (1/10 tries or so), and I can do various configuration tasks for a while before the client finally crashes with a generic Windows error "Vpx client has stopped working". 

I can ping the visor from either client without a problem, and I can access the visor's web page by typing its IP address into my web browser from either client as well.  Network connectivity does not seem to be an issue, even among the VMs on the host.

When the VMs are running I can still access them without a problem even when I can't access the visor. 

I have tried:

- restarting management network

- restarting all management agents from the DCUI

- installing vSphere client on another workstation

I have enclosed a snapshot of the DCUI log, it has one or two warnings I don't understand.

Any ideas? 

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Install ESXi 6.5 on R730 with Intel X710

January 19, 2017, 10:11 pm
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Hello All,

 

After install ESXi 6.0 via "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-4192238.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A04" on Dell PowerEdge R730, everything is okay !!!

 

But, if I try to install ESXi 6.5 via "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0-4564106.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00" on Dell PowerEdge R730, my vmnic0 and vmnic1 (Intel X710 DP 10Gb DA/SFP+) are not working !!!

 

Does anybody know the solution ?

Thanks for your reply.

 

 

[root@R730:~] esxcli network nic list

Name    PCI Device    Driver  Admin Status  Link Status  Speed  Duplex  MAC Address        MTU  Description                                          

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

vmnic0  0000:01:00.0  i40en  Up            Up          10000  Full    f8:bc:12:05:85:d0  1500  Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+

vmnic1  0000:01:00.1  i40en  Up            Up          10000  Full    f8:bc:12:05:85:d2  1500  Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+

vmnic2  0000:0c:00.0  igbn    Up            Down            0  Half    f8:bc:12:05:85:f0  1500  Intel Corporation Gigabit 4P X710/I350 rNDC          

vmnic3  0000:0c:00.1  igbn    Up            Up            1000  Full    f8:bc:12:05:85:f1  1500  Intel Corporation Gigabit 4P X710/I350 rNDC          

vusb0  Pseudo        cdce    Up            Up            100  Full    18:fb:7b:5d:d5:ee  1500  DellTM iDRAC Virtual NIC USB Device              

 

[root@R730:~] esxcli network nic get -n vmnic0

  Advertised Auto Negotiation: false

  Advertised Link Modes: 1000BaseT/Full, 10000BaseT/Full, 10000BaseT/Full, 40000BaseCR4/Full, 40000BaseSR4/Full

  Auto Negotiation: false

  Cable Type:

  Current Message Level: -1

  Driver Info:

        Bus Info: 0000:01:00:0

        Driver: i40en

        Firmware Version: 5.04 0x800024bc 17.5.11

        Version: 1.1.0

  Link Detected: true

  Link Status: Up

  Name: vmnic0

  PHYAddress: 0

  Pause Autonegotiate: false

  Pause RX: false

  Pause TX: false

  Supported Ports:

  Supports Auto Negotiation: false

  Supports Pause: false

  Supports Wakeon: true

  Transceiver:

  Virtual Address: 00:50:56:52:57:61

  Wakeon: MagicPacket(tm)

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patching esxi using CLI

June 10, 2014, 6:15 am
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hello, I have been trying to patch my ESXi 5.1 server using Cli I keep getting errors.

 

here is my command..

 

c:\program files (x86)\VMWAre\VMWare vSphere CLI>esxcli --server=xxx.xxx.xxx --username=root software vib sources list--depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/

 

I receive the following output.

 

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[MetadataDownloadError]

Could not download from depot at zip:/vmfs/volumes/4ba918b6-9a1e601f-1671-001

75207c/UPDATE/ESXI510-20142001.zip?index.xml, skipping (('zip:/vmfs/volumes/4

18b6-9a1e601f-1671-0018fe75207c/UPDATE/ESXI510-20142001.zip?index.xml', '', "

or extracting index.xml from /vmfs/volumes/4ba918b6-9a1e601f-1671-0018fe75207

PDATE/ESXI510-20142001.zip: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/vmfs/volum

4ba918b6-9a1e601f-1671-0018fe75207c/UPDATE/ESXI510-20142001.zip'"))

       url = zip:/vmfs/volumes/4ba918b6-9a1e601f-1671-0018fe75207c/UPDATE/ESX

0-20142001.zip?index.xml

Please refer to the log file for more details.

 

I was trying to get a list of VIBs first.  So that wasn't working, so I tried to update the thing with this command. 

 

c:\program files (x86)\VMWAre\VMWare vSphere CLI>esxcli --server=xxx.xxx.xxx --username=root software vib update --depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/patches/patch.zip

 

I receive this output,

 

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI>esxcli --server=xxx.xxx.xxx -

-username=root software vib update --depot=/vmfs/volumes/VMs Datastore Partition

/UPDATE/ESXi510-20142001.zip

Enter password:

Error: Invalid option Datastore

 

not sure what to do...I have tried using the short name of the datastore and full ID of the datastore...please help..

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ESXI Evaluation question

October 25, 2013, 4:43 am
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We've just installed ESXI 5.5 and it's up and running with 1x VM so far.

 

I was under the impression that ESXI 5.5 was free but I am getting Evaluation messages within the vSphere client software. Can someone advise what happens at the end of the 60days?

 

Does 5.1 work the same way?

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VSphere / ESXi 6.5 AHCI performance problems with native driver / FIX

November 22, 2016, 12:03 am
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Im having performance problems when using the new VMWare native AHCI-driver on several hosts (Intel Avoton and also Xeon 1225 V3 System (HP Ml310e gen8)).

Using SSDs on those systems - im not sure if it also affects HDDs.

 

Moving back to the legacy vmklinux AHCI-driver fixes the problems.

 

See this blog post:

 

NXHut - IT and Windows - News: Fix slow disk performance (vmw_ahci driver) in ESXi 6.5

 

 

I hope this gets fixed soon so I can move back to the native drivers

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HP Proliant DL380 G5 . Host does not support passthrough configuration

September 25, 2013, 5:56 am
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Hi

 

I need to attach a tape drive to an HP Proliant DL380 G5 running VMware ESXi 5.1.0

 

Under vSphere Client . Configuration . Advanced Settings . Configure Passthrough... is greyed out

 

detail: Host does not support passthrough configuration

 

 

I have succeeded on doing this for a Proliant DL160 Gen8.

 

 

Can the host be enabled to support passthrough configuration?

 

If not, is there an alternative please?

 

Regards

Martin

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vSphere 5 Licensing

July 12, 2011, 2:23 pm
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I took a minute to read the licensing guide for vSphere 5 and I'm still trying to pull my jaw off the floor. VMware has completely screwed their customers this time. Why?

 

What I used to be able to do with 2 CPU licenses now takes 4. Incredible.

 

Today

 

BL460c G7 with 2 sockets and 192G of memory = 2 vSphere Enterprise Plus licenses
DL585 G7 with 4 sockets and 256G of memory = 4 vSphere Enterprise Plus licenses

 

Tomorrow

 

BL460c G7 with 2 sockets and 192G of memory = 4 vSphere Enterprise Plus licenses
BL585 G7 with 4 sockets and 256G of memory = 6 vSphere Enterprise Plus licenses

 


So it's almost as if VMware is putting a penalty on density and encouraging users to buy hardware with more sockets rather than less.

 

I get that the vRAM entitlements are for what you use, not necessarily what you have, but who buys memory and doesn't use it?

 

Forget the hoopla about a VM with 1 TB of memory. Who in their right mind would deploy that using the new license model? It would take 22 licenses to accommodate! You could go out and buy the physical box for way less than that today, from any hardware vendor.

 

Anyone else completely shocked by this move?

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Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process

January 30, 2014, 7:48 am
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Hi,

 

I am using ESXi 5.5, build 1281650.

 

I am having the problem of not being able to start any VM's without getting the following message

 

Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process.

Failed to power on '/vmfs/volumes/51a6288d-06384dd1-6fd5-089e01a03cd5/test/test.vmx'.

 

There are currently 5 VM's. 1 of them is running and it is fine, but I am afraid to turn it off worrying it may not come back up again.

The above error happens even when i create new machines.

 

I have in total 3 of these ESXi installation, all running on the same build and same hardware.

 

Only difference that I can see right now is that int he server summary under Genreal there is no Image Profile, it is blank. My w other working servers show ESXI-T.T.0-1331820-standard. I do not know if this means anything

 

Any assistance will be appreciated.

 

Regards,

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Alert Host IPMI System Event Log status.

February 25, 2014, 7:23 am
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I have a VMware cluster running on a blade server and all but one of the HOSTS report this error     Alert Host IPMI System Event Log status.   I did a Google search and came up with this fix  VMware KB:    The Host IPMI System Event Log Status alarm is triggered repeatedly in VMware vCenter Server 4.x and 5.x …  In step  4  i get this    The system event log is empty.      Any help with this would be great.


Resolution

 

To determine why the log has filled up, investigate the hardware.

 

 

To resolve this issue, stop the alarm from triggering repeatedly and clear the IPMI System Event log and reset the sensors.

 

To clear the log and reset the sensors:

  1. Open vCenter Server using vSphere Client.
  2. In the vCenter Inventory, select the ESXi/ESX host.
  3. Click the Hardware Status tab.
  4. Click System Event log under View.
  5. Click Reset EventLog. The red alert is removed from the System Event log.
  6. Click Reset Sensors to reset the host sensors.
Introduced in ESXi 5.1 Update 2 (Build Number: 1483097) and ESXi 5.5 Patch 1 (Build Number:  1474528), there is a new localcli command line to clear the IPMI SEL logs:

localcli hardware ipmi sel clearTo execute this command on the ESXi 5.1 or 5.5 host:
  1. Connect to the ESXi host via SSH. For more information, see Using Tech Support Mode in ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.x (1017910).
  2. Execute this command:

    localcli hardware ipmi sel clear


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vmStatsProvider - Event ID 256 / 258

July 17, 2013, 2:59 am
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Has anyone seen these event log entries on virtual windows servers - they seem to be floooding the application logs.

 

Where do they come from, what do they mean and can I stop them from being logged without missing any important information?

 

Log Name:      Application
Source:        vmStatsProvider
Date:          17/07/2013 09:02:06
Event ID:      258
Task Category: Guest Library API
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:     
Description:
The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.


Log Name:      Application
Source:        vmStatsProvider
Date:          17/07/2013 09:02:06
Event ID:      256
Task Category: General
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:     
Description:
The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".

 

** I've just noticed that they seem log every 30 minutes.

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bootbank cannot be found at path /bootbank

May 6, 2017, 6:59 am
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Hi

In vCenter for one of the ESXi server I am getting  error as "bootbank cannot be found at path /bootbank"

Reboot is temporary solution for this.

 

Out of two devices there is none USB device at boot time

 

vmhba32 usb-storage link-n/a usb.vmhba32 () USB

 

And below is the error details :-

SCSI Level: 2 Is Pseudo: false Status: dead timeout

Is RDM Capable: false Is Removable: true

 

Can some one please suggest permanent solution if any.

 

Thanks &  Regards

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Expand vmdk that is larger that 2Tb

May 16, 2014, 7:36 pm
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I've upgrade to Esxi 5.5 already and created a vmdk to 4.7 Tb and would like to expand it to 5.6 Tb.  I get the following error message when I attempt to expand it and I don't know why or how to bypass it: Hot-extend was invoked with size (12025908428 sectors) >= 2TB. Hot-extend beyond or equal to 2TB is not supported.

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Virtual machine disk consolidation failed

June 10, 2014, 4:40 pm
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Hello Everyone,

 

I am facing issue in my environment while doing for a disk consolidation from snapshot option.

the error is giving me as " Unable to access file <unspecified filename> since it is locked". i tried teh below command

 

#esxcli vm process list ( to checke the VM WID)

#esxcli vm process kill --type soft --world-id XXXXX

Above step did not worked stil it was showing unspecified file is locked.

Then i check with

#ps | grep vmx

# then Kill - 9 PID (which is the parent process ID)

 

My VM got rebooted but issue did not resolved. Please help me or give me the path to find the lock unspecified and how do i unlock the same.

 

 

Thanks,

Subhadeep Sen

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How to recover deleted files "vmdk" on a vmfs partition ?

April 26, 2013, 1:00 am
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Hello,


I've a problem. after deleting vmdk files on a vmfs partition with "rm". I search a solution to recover

them. Do you have an idea ?

 

thank you

 

Didier

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Datastore Usage on Disk Alarm?

February 21, 2011, 2:37 pm
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I setup the defualt Datastore Usage on Disk alarm to email when it triggers.

 

Now my understanding of the alarm is, if Datastore uses more than 75% of its space it will trigger then email me.  Actually 75% to warn, 85% to alert.

 

The alarm triggered. as one of my datastores actually is using above 90% of the space.

 

But the email confused me

 

 

Target: Sata_Datastore
Previous Status: Gray
New Status: Red

Alarm Definition:
([Yellow Metric Is above 7,500KB; Red Metric Is above 8,500KB])

Current values for metric/state:
Metric Space actually used = 9,617KB

Description:
Alarm 'Datastore usage on disk' on Sata_Datastore changed from Gray to Red
It says above 7500KB, actual used is 9617KB.
Is it just giving me wrong info, where the 7500kb should be percent?  or is the Datastore usage on disk mean something other than what I thought?
Thanks
Mike
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PSOD - Purple Screen of Death

October 15, 2012, 9:49 am
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Hi everybody!

 

I'm experiencing curiously a problem with our ESXi 5.1 hypervisor. When we power up the server, it's stay available to accept connections, run VMs, edit ESXi config and etc. When we power up a VM from the server, after few minutes ( 18... 25... 27 min ), the server crashes displaying the Purple Screen. I've searched on the web about the problem but I cannot found anything around this. Could anyone help me?

 

See below all the information of PSOD.

 

VMware ESXi 5.1.0 [Releasebuild-799733 x86_64]

NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/vmkernel/sched/memsched.c:17724
cr0=0x8001003d cr2=0x1db32a5c cr3=0xcd809000 cr4=0x216c

*PCPU0:2078/helper13-2

Code start : 0x41802bc00000 VMK uptime: 1:21:19:10.743
0x41220079baf0:[0x41802bc7abff]PanicvPanicInt@vmkernel#nover+0x56 stack: 0x3000000008

0x41220079bbd0:[0x41802bc7b4a7]Panic@vmkernel#nover+0xae stack: 0x100000000000000

0x41220079bc50:[0x41802bdd88eb]MemSched_WorldCleanup@vmkernel#nover+0x426 stack: 0x410001625830

0x41220079bef0:[0x41802bd033b8]WorldCleanup@vmkernel#nover+0x1cb stack: 0x470079bf40

0x41220079bf60:[0x41802bd03829]WorldReap@vmkernel#nover+0x318 stack: 0x0

0x41220079bff0:[0x41802bc483c8]helpFunc@vmkernel#nover+0x517 stack: 0x0

0x41220079bff8:[0x0]<unknown> stack: 0x0

base fs=0x0 gs=0x418040000000 Kgs=0x0

Coredump to disk. Slot 1 of 1

VASpace (7/9) DiskDump: Partial Dump: Out of space o=0x63ff200 l=0x1000

Debugger waiting(world 2078) -- no port for remote debugger. "Escape" for local debugger.

 

 

 

Since now, thanks a lot.

 

Best regards,

Eduardo

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Rufus (free utility) takes 2 minutes to create a bootable USB flash drive for ESXi installation boot source that becomes the install target, even for 5.5

September 23, 2013, 10:52 am
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Just an FYI, one of those rare Windows open source gems that are getting increasingly hard to find on the web these days, amidst a see of downloader payloads.

 

I've found Rufus to be very handy for quick creation of USB flash drive you can boot from, then install to, for ESXi, no command line stuff to memorize needed, and very quick:

TinkerTry.com/rufus-takes-2-minutes-to-create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive-for-esxi-installation

 

works great with ESXi 5.5 too:

TinkerTry.com/download-vsphere-5-lab

 

and when done with that flash drive and you want to use it for something else (but normal reformatting doesn't work), it handles that too, even on Windows 8.1:

TinkerTry.com/rufus-lets-you-quickly-and-easily-reformat-an-esxi-usb-flash-drive-back-to-full-capacity

 

Particularly handy for folks getting started who shy away from VMware's Linux procedure:

Format a USB Flash Drive to Boot the ESXi Installation or Upgrade

vSphere 5.5 Documentation Center

or potentially dangerous Windows diskpart commands. Really just fast and useful for pretty much everybody.

 

Thoughts/opinions?

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ESXi 5.5 installer does not detect network adaptor

September 26, 2013, 7:18 pm
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Hey, Guys

 

Downloaded ESXi 5.5 this afternoon and burned a CD to upgrade my ESXi 5.1u1. But after the installer loaded, it prompted me that ESXi can not detect my network adaptor...

 

It works just fine with ESXi 5.1u1...Maybe I downloaded ISO wrong...

 

Here below is the output of the NIC from my ESXi version 5.1 update 1:

 

~ # lspci | grep -i net

00:03:05.0 Network controller: Realtek Realtek 8169 Gigabit Ethernet [vmnic0]

 

Please advise.

 

Thanks,

/S

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LSI provider not working under ESXi 6

April 21, 2015, 11:35 am
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Hey,

has anyone got the LSI SMIS provider working with ESXi 6? The LSI support site only lists downloads for 5.0 and 5.x. I tried both, but when I try to discover the host with MegaRAID Storage Manager, I'm unable to find it.

Maybe I'm missing something?

 

Thanks,

aecro

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Install ESXi 6.5 on R730 with Intel X710

January 19, 2017, 10:11 pm
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Hello All,

 

After install ESXi 6.0 via "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-4192238.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A04" on Dell PowerEdge R730, everything is okay !!!

 

But, if I try to install ESXi 6.5 via "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0-4564106.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00" on Dell PowerEdge R730, my vmnic0 and vmnic1 (Intel X710 DP 10Gb DA/SFP+) are not working !!!

 

Does anybody know the solution ?

Thanks for your reply.

 

 

[root@R730:~] esxcli network nic list

Name    PCI Device    Driver  Admin Status  Link Status  Speed  Duplex  MAC Address        MTU  Description                                          

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

vmnic0  0000:01:00.0  i40en  Up            Up          10000  Full    f8:bc:12:05:85:d0  1500  Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+

vmnic1  0000:01:00.1  i40en  Up            Up          10000  Full    f8:bc:12:05:85:d2  1500  Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+

vmnic2  0000:0c:00.0  igbn    Up            Down            0  Half    f8:bc:12:05:85:f0  1500  Intel Corporation Gigabit 4P X710/I350 rNDC          

vmnic3  0000:0c:00.1  igbn    Up            Up            1000  Full    f8:bc:12:05:85:f1  1500  Intel Corporation Gigabit 4P X710/I350 rNDC          

vusb0  Pseudo        cdce    Up            Up            100  Full    18:fb:7b:5d:d5:ee  1500  DellTM iDRAC Virtual NIC USB Device              

 

[root@R730:~] esxcli network nic get -n vmnic0

  Advertised Auto Negotiation: false

  Advertised Link Modes: 1000BaseT/Full, 10000BaseT/Full, 10000BaseT/Full, 40000BaseCR4/Full, 40000BaseSR4/Full

  Auto Negotiation: false

  Cable Type:

  Current Message Level: -1

  Driver Info:

        Bus Info: 0000:01:00:0

        Driver: i40en

        Firmware Version: 5.04 0x800024bc 17.5.11

        Version: 1.1.0

  Link Detected: true

  Link Status: Up

  Name: vmnic0

  PHYAddress: 0

  Pause Autonegotiate: false

  Pause RX: false

  Pause TX: false

  Supported Ports:

  Supports Auto Negotiation: false

  Supports Pause: false

  Supports Wakeon: true

  Transceiver:

  Virtual Address: 00:50:56:52:57:61

  Wakeon: MagicPacket(tm)

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