Can anyone advise if there is an easy way of working out which vmnic is the ESXi Management connection without having to get someone in a remote secure datacentre to physically disconnect the one labelled 'ESXi Management' so that I can see which one changes from enabled to dsiabled at that point?
I've just completed a remote build of ESXi 5.0 and I have 10 physical NIC connections on the server, all trunked on the Cisco swith for ESXi Management, VM Management, Public Data, Backup. When I try to assign a static ESXi management IP address to the one cable that is appropriately VLAN trunked on the physical switch, I'm left with 10 vmnics on the ESXi screen with no way of knowing (that I know of) which was is Management. I did try the first and second, but neither were the correct one (it ended up vmnic8). Eventually I had to raise all sorts of security forms for someone to go into the DC and pull the cable (as above).
I've a lot of servers to do and this could be a pain (unless the are all the same model of server. Any advice would be appreciated.