Connecting and
Disconnecting Uplink Adapters and Port Groups with ESXCLI
You can use
esxcli network
vswitch standard portgroup policy failover set
to connect and
disconnect uplink adapters and port groups.
If your setup includes one or
more port groups, you can associate each port group with one or more uplink
adapters and remove the association. This functionality allows you to filter
traffic from a port group to a specific uplink, even if the virtual switch is
connected with multiple uplinks.
Specify one of the options
listed in
Connection Options for ESXCLI Host Management Commands
in place of
<conn_options>
.
- Connect a port group with an uplink adapter.
This command fails silently if the uplink adapter does not exist.esxcli <conn_options> network vswitch standard portgroup policy failover set --active-uplinks=vmnic1,vmnic6,vmnic7 - Make some of the adapters standby instead of active.esxcli <conn_options> network vswitch standard portgroup policy failover set --standby-uplinks=vmnic1,vmnic6,vmnic7