User`s guide

Chapter 9 VMware ESX Servers 187
▼ Monitor vNICs
1. From the Oracle Fabric Interconnect, monitor the health of the vNICs:
All configuration can be done via the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client.
However on the ESX Server, there are many useful CLI commands available to
you.
2. To find the device mapping between the pre-installed virtual resources and the
ones that are attached into the Oracle Fabric Interconnect:
3. Connect the vNIC to a vSwitch either through the ESX’s GUI or through the
esxcfg-vswitch command to uplink the vNIC and list it:
The esxcfg-vswitch command provides an interface for adding, removing, and
modifying virtual switches and their settings. By default, there is a single virtual
switch called “vSwitch0”.
The esxcfg-vmhbadevs command provides information about the LUNs
available on the ESX server. By default, the command will print a mapping of
vmhbaX:X:X names to console /dev/ names:
show vnic <vnic>.<server> -detail
esxcfg-xgmap
vh0 -> vmhba32
vh1 -> vmhba34
vn10 -> vnic10
vn11 -> vnic11
vn12 -> vnic12
....
esxcfg-vswitch –L vnic1 vSwitch1
esxcfg-vswitch –l
esxcfg-vmhbadevs
vmhba0:0:0 /dev/sda
vmhba32:2:1 /dev/sdd
vmhba32:2:2 /dev/sde
vmhba32:2:3 /dev/sdf
vmhba32:2:4 /dev/sdg
...