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Ethernet Over USB status is not displayed correctly from Web Client after disabling from BMC
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Article ID: 338284
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VMware vSphere ESXi
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Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
The vusb0(Ethernet Over USB) device is displayed in the vSphere Client after disabling from BMC
Running
esxcfg-nic -l
or
esxcli network nic list
commands does not list vusb0
This issue can be seen with Lenovo XCC when these steps are followed:
Login to https://
BMC_IP
.
Go to XClarity Controller > BMC Configuration > Network > Ethernet Over USB, and then click the ”Disabled” button
Note
: This is not hardware specific.
Environment
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.0
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7
Cause
This issue occurs due to the ESXi kernel not notifying the hostd service that vusb0 has been removed.
Resolution
Currently, there is no resolution.
Workaround:
Connect to the ESXi with an ssh session and root credentials
Run this command to restart hostd :
/etc/init.d/hostd restart
Alternatively, the ESXi host can be restarted.
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