HostVirtualNicManagerNicType_enum

Possible values:

• vmotion: The VirtualNic is used for VMotion.

• faultToleranceLogging: The VirtualNic is used for Fault Tolerance logging.

• vSphereReplication: The VirtualNic is used for vSphere Replication LWD traffic (i.e From the primary host to the VR server).

• vSphereReplicationNFC: The VirtualNic is used for vSphere Replication NFC traffic (i.e.

  From the VR server to the secondary host).

• management: The VirtualNic is used for management network traffic .

  This nicType is available only when the system does not support service console adapters.

  See also usesServiceConsoleNic.

• vsan: The VirtualNic is used for Virtual SAN data traffic.

  To enable or disable a VirtualNic for VSAN networking, use UpdateVsan_Task.

  See also HostVsanSystem, UpdateVsan_Task, ReconfigureComputeResource_Task.

• vSphereProvisioning: The VirtualNic is used for vSphere provisioning NFC traffic (i.e.

  the NFC traffic between ESX hosts as a part of a VC initiated provisioning operations like cold-migrations, clones, snapshot and cold data in hot migration).

• vsanWitness: The VirtualNic is used for Virtual SAN witness traffic.

  Witness traffic vmknic is required for Virtual SAN stretched cluster, to help on communication between Virtual SAN data node and witness node. To enable or disable a VirtualNic for Virtual SAN networking, use UpdateVsan_Task.

  See also HostVsanSystem, UpdateVsan_Task.

• vSphereBackupNFC: The VirtualNic is used for vSphere backup NFC traffic (i.e.

  the NFC traffic between backup appliance and ESX hosts).

• ptp: The VirtualNic is used for Precision Time Protocol (PTP).

• nvmeTcp: The VirtualNic is used for NVMe over TCP traffic.

  Since: vSphere API Release 7.0.3.0

• nvmeRdma: The VirtualNic is used for NVMe over RDMA traffic.

  Since: vSphere API Release 7.0.3.0