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i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

  • 1.  i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 17, 2020 10:29 PM

    If i go to my vcenter and go to the tab Netwoking, i only can see one network, named Produccion, but i have another 3, MGMT, vMotion and BCKUP. any clue why i'm not able to see my others networks?



  • 2.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 07:16 AM

    Do you have only one ESXi?

    Are you using vCenter?

    Give us a little bit more information of your platform to understand.



  • 3.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 01:33 PM

    it's a cluster with 5 hosts, i'm using vcsa 6.7 U3



  • 4.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 07:51 AM

    If I remember corretcly the issue is that you do not have that network configured on all ESXi with the same name (Supposing that you are using vSphere Standard Switches)

    For doing a test, configure a portgroup named test in one ESXi and then configure the same respecting all the characters on the rest of the hosts and see what happen.



  • 5.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 08:51 AM

    Are you using standard or distributed switch?



  • 6.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 01:47 PM

    Standard



  • 7.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 01:52 PM

    Are the 3 which are "missing" all used by VMkernel ports? It sounds like it from those names.

    If so, they are not "networks" for VMs - they are not VM Port Groups, which is what I would expect the Networking tab to show.



  • 8.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 01:58 PM

    that is correct, those 3 are not networks for vms, but in the network tab i was able to see them always, suddenly they are no more and i wanna know why



  • 9.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 03:13 PM

    OK so I just setup a test environment, and on standard switches the Networking inventory ONLY shows VM Port Groups.

    esxi01 vSwitch0

    esxi02 vSwitch0

    Networking inventory



  • 10.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 03:18 PM

    if i understand, those vswitches used by vmkernel are not showed in the network inventory is that right? any explanation why? cause i used to see them there. i don't know if is due to the upgrade in vcsa



  • 11.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory
    Best Answer

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 03:24 PM

    I believe the Networking inventory view has always worked that way for standard switches - there may be other areas of the vSphere Client where the display is different, but not the Networking inventory tree.



  • 12.  RE: i no longer can see my networks in my Networking inventory

    Posted Mar 18, 2020 06:39 PM

    I appreciate the clarification, really. Is there any technical documentation that indicates what you told me?