Unable to remove a standard vSwitch with special characters from the host UI/vCenter GUI

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• The standard vSwitches are configured/created with special characters like '? and /?' in names on the ESXi host.
•  Unable to remove the standard vSwitches from host UI and fails with the error " A specified parameter was not correct".    

         

         

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0.x

Cause

The special characters are not correctly parsed in the removed operation causing the failure.

Resolution

• Remove the virtual standard switches with special characters in name from the host CLI with the command: esxcfg-vswitch -d "<vSwitch name>"

Additional Information

To managing host network from command line or documentation on esxcfg-vswitch Configuring Standard vSwitch (vSS) or virtual Distributed Switch (vDS) from the command line in ESXi