The Port State information for a vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switch indicates whether the port is in a Link Up, Link Down, or Blocked state. The port state is displayed in the Ports tab for the vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switch in the vSphere Client connected to vCenter Server.
This article describes methods to refresh the state information for a vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switch port list in the vSphere Client.
To refresh the port state automatically:
Note: The DVS port state refresh is initiated by any vSphere Client connected to vCenter Server, but the refresh task is performed by vCenter Server and is seen by all connected clients in the Recent Tasks list. If multiple vSphere Client sessions are connected at the same time and each session is refreshing the port state every 20 seconds, the Recent Tasks list seen by a client will contain the refresh tasks created by all the clients.
In the vpxd logs of vCenter Server, the Refresh distributed virtual port state task appears similar to:
[datestamp threadid info 'App' opID=operationid] [VpxLRO] -- BEGIN task-id --
dvs-id -- vim.DistributedVirtualSwitch.refreshPortState -- guid