Intel NIC physical port remains up when vmnic interface is explicitly set to down
Applies to
- NetApp HCI Compute nodes
- VMware ESXi 6.5, 6.7, 7.0 U1
Issue
The copper transceiver 1/10GbE led port remains up even when the vmnic2 / vmnic3 interface in ESXi host is explicitly set to down.
esxcli network nic down –n vmnic3