Link Layer Data Protocol (LLDP) can be enabled from the vSphere Distributed Switch in vCenter as follows:

Log in to vCenter and select the Networking tab and right-click the vDS. Navigate to Settings and click on Edit Settings select Advanced. Now Set the discovery protocol to Link Layer Discovery Protocol and select Both

We can now view the LLDP information for the VxRail hosts physical adapters & the DELL switch corresponding details:

Also from the OS10 console we can now view VxRail adapter info (hat tip Dave Ryan):

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s