Virtual machine reporting duplicate network adapters
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Virtual machine reporting duplicate network adapters

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Article ID: 301130

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Products

VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
  • When viewing a virtual machine network adapter from the host networking tab, a virtual machine shows two network adapters.
  • The network adapter shows up twice in the networking summary.
  • The virtual machine settings has only one adapter listed.
  • The virtual machine is attached to a Port group with no Hosts attached in vCenter Server.


Cause

This issue is caused by changing network adapters while a snapshot is present.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, consolidate or remove the snapshot. For more information, see Managing snapshots in vSphere Web Client.