December 2017
Beginner
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Physical adapters (also called pNICs) are usually used as the virtual switches uplinks. You can find the detailed information about a physical network card in your ESXi host, by selecting the Networking section and Physical adapters option:

You have a list of all your physical network ports (from your network cards). Each network port is named starting from vmnic0 (the first recognized network port), then vmnic1, and so on. For each port, you will have some details such as network speed, virtual switches where it's connected, the physical MAC address, the observed IP range (based on broadcast packets that ...
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