Your new Server has more NICs than you need? No problem. As long as they are not connected to a vSwitch VMware won’t bother with them. But if you install HP’s management agents and take a look at the System Management Homepage or integrate your ESX into System Insight Manager, you will see a warnings for each NIC that has no link.
I wrote a small script that will disable these unused NICs:
disable_unused_nics.sh
Here’s how to install it:
- Save this file as /usr/local/bin/disable_unused_nics.sh
- Edit the file an adjust the unused NIC numbers
- Make it executeable with “chmod +x /usr/local/bin/disable_unused_nics.sh”
- Open /etc/init.d/rc.local and add the line “/usr/local/bin/disable_unused_nics.sh” at the end of the file
Now, when you reboot the host, or manually call /etc/init.d/rc.local you will see the following:
Afteer that, check your SMH:
That’s all.
Schlagworte: management, sim, smh, VMware