Managing Uplink Adapters

You can manage uplink adapters, which represent the physical NICs that connect the
host to the network by using the
esxcli network nic
or the
vicfg-nics
command. You can also use
esxcli network vswitch
and
esxcfg-vswitch
to link and unlink the uplink.
You can use
vicfg-nics
to list information and to specify speed and duplex setting for the uplink.
You can use
esxcli network nic
to list all uplinks, to list information, to set attributes, and to bring a specified uplink down or up.