Disable Network I/O Control (NIOC) on ESXi hosts when hosts are disconnected from vCenter

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article explains how the Network I/O Control can be disabled on individual ESXi hosts if the same are disconnected from vCenter, considering NetIOC feature is a cluster wide setting that can be enabled or disabled on the VDS:

Enable Network I/O Control on a vSphere Distributed Switch

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi

Resolution

NetIOC on individual hosts can be temporarily disabled using the below commands:

vsish -e set /net/pNics/vmnicX/sched/useResPoolsCfg 0
vsish -e set /net/pNics/vmnicX/sched/allowResPoolsSched 0

Replace vmnicX with the relevant vmnic in the above command.

NOTE: These changes done on individual hosts via CLI are not persistent.