While messing with some options in my lab, I noticed that once I added an iSCSI software Adapter, every option to remove it is greyed out.
Crazy enough, the only way to remove an iSCSI adapter in VMware is to:
- Right click->Properties on the adapter
- Click on the Configure... button
- Uncheck Enabled under Status in the General Properties dialog box
- Restart the ESXi host (yep, you literally have to restart the whole box)
Upon restart, the adapter will be removed automatically. If anyone finds another solution, please drop a comment below and let me know 🙂
Thanks. This worked. I had extra paths on my adapter b/c I was deleting and re-adding port groups trying out different ways of multipathing. I knew I only had 2 actual paths but the adapter properties still held on to the old paths after I deleted the associated port group or vNIC. I knew they all pointed to the same place and it would probably work, but still....we wouldn't be doing this if we didn't want it just right. lol.
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Thank you,
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As of vSphere 6.5 U1 this still works. Just make sure that you remove any "Network Port Bindings" before starting this procedure.
Thank you for posting. It saved me a ton of time.
Thanks Fred, appreciate the update!