Unable to edit or delete a virtual switch

[ewedemeyer]

I receive the message "Call "HostNetworkSystem.UpdateVirtualSwitch" for object "networkSystem"" when attempting to remove a nic from the virtual switch.

When I attempt to remove it from the command line i get "Not a valid virtual switch or itis a DVSwitch"

esxcfg-vswitch -l is shown in the attachments

I cannot delete or change any of the virtual switches vSwitch1, vSwitch2 or vSwitch3

This is ESXi 4.1

[a_p_]

I don't have a test system at the moment, so this is just a guess.

Add a port group to the vSwitch and then try to remove the NICs.

André

[ewedemeyer]

I cannot add a port group. Through the gui i get an error. Via the command line i get "no such virtual switch"

[athlon_crazy]

Maybe something holding the vmnic. Have you try to restart vmware mgmt service & run the command $esxcfg-vSwitch -U vmnic2 vSwitch0

[ewedemeyer]

The vmnic removal fails as the cli does not see vswitch1

[coafark]

Thanks for putting the command there.  That worked for me.

I was using -d and not -U