Remove a NETWORK adapter with a voltage VM.

Greetings

I note the discussion at this link... Network card remove virtual machine running?

Given the above is a bit old, I was wondering if there was a better way to do it now? It works, although there seems to be a bit of a brute force backend way to do. Because I need to do for the production of 2000 virtual machines I don't want to take any chances, if I can possibly help it.

One of the effects that I found that may be of this method is that the virtual machine occasionally requires a vMotion to solve "configuration not valid for device number '0' when it is tempting to connect offline VMs. NIC

Please can I confirm if there is a better way to allow hot withdrawal of a NETWORK card, and then use the 'normal' way to remove a NIC (Remove-carte_reseau).

Thank you very much!

I'm afraid that the situation has not changed, you should always use the API method.

In fact, if monitor you (with Onyx, for example) what happens when you remove one card NETWORK to a VM under tension from the vSphere client, you will notice that the same method of the API is used.

It is also important to understand that some comments not the OS really love hot-removal of a network card.

On the positive side, they are for most older versions of OS.

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