Remove an adapter a vSwitch using PowerCLI

Hello community!


I worked on a script to remove an adapter from a vSwitch, but


Remove-NetworkAdapter, Remove-VDSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter and Remove-VMHostNetworkAdapter


doesn't seem to work on standard vSwitches - what am I missing?

Thank you very much!

Mike

I don't think that there is an adapter to remove to the vswitch.  What you can do is put the switch for the adapters, you only have to be rather than what should be deleted. IE, the bottom will define your virtual switch to only Vmnic1 if you wanted to remove the vmnic0.

Get-VirtualSwitch - VMhost $VMHost - name 'vSwitch0 | Game-VirtualSwitch - Nic "vmnic1" - confirm: $false

If you have several, and you have to keep telling 2 but not 3 it would be:

Get-VirtualSwitch - VMHost $VMHost - name 'vSwitch0 | Game-VirtualSwitch - Nic "vmnic0", "vmnic1" - confirm: $false

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