How to Identify which physical ports are connected and try to identify on the actual NIC?

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

If you are wanting to know which physical ports and physical NIC are connected to vDS. 

Resolution

Steps:

1. In the vSphere Client, navigate to a host. 
2. Click on Configure
3. Under Networking, go to Virtual switches. 
4. Under the vDS, click on the down arrow for an Uplink
5. You should see a vmnic listed. click on the ... (ellipses) and view settings. 
6. If the CDP or LLDP are enabled, you will find the port information.