ESXi CLI Commands Network and HBA

Get list of NICs

esxcli network nic list

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Check the status of active network connections

esxcli network ip connection list

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Get driver and firmware version

esxcli network nic get -n <vmnic#>

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Get the name of the HBAs

/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -d

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Get driver and firmware information

/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -l -i <vmhba#>/<hba type> | head -20


Ex: /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -l -i vmhba4/qlogic | head -20

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Get HBA driver name and version

for a in $(esxcfg-scsidevs -a |awk '{print $2}') ;do echo $a; vmkload_mod -s $a |grep -i version ;done

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Get VID & DID for HBA

for name in `vmkchdev -l | grep vmhba | awk '{print$5}'`;do echo $name ; echo “VID :DID SVID:SDID”; vmkchdev -l | grep $name | awk '{print $2 , $3}';printf “Driver: ”;echo `esxcfg-scsidevs -a | grep $name |awk '{print $2}'`;vmkload_mod -s `esxcfg-scsidevs -a | grep $name|awk '{print $2}'` |grep -i version;echo `lspci -vvv | grep $name | awk '{print $1=$NF=“”,$0}'`;printf “\n”;done

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Get VID & DID for vmnic

for name in `vmkchdev -l | grep vmnic | awk '{print$5}'`;do echo $name ; echo “VID :DID SVID:SDID”; vmkchdev -l | grep $name | awk '{print $2 , $3}';printf “Driver: ”;echo `esxcfg-scsidevs -a | grep $name |awk '{print $2}'`;vmkload_mod -s `esxcfg-scsidevs -a | grep $name|awk '{print $2}'` |grep -i version;echo `lspci -vvv | grep $name | awk '{print $1=$NF=“”,$0}'`;printf “\n”;done

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