ESX 3.5 – Change a VLAN Tag on a PortGroup

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I setup 4 ESX servers the other day and the wrong vlan tag was entered. MyLAN admin is out of the office, so I have two choices… One Bug him like crazy (Calls and Emails) or two wait till he returns to change the VLAN tag
I like Option 3 – Change the VLAN tag myself…
I found this here and it work perfectly…
http://www.geekshangout.com/?q=node/17

Check which vSwitch the Service Console is on (and the name of the Service Console) with esxcfg-vswitch -l
To remove the vlan id completely, just set it to 0 (in case you have set it by accident on an access port)
esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v 0 -p “Service Console”
To set a vlan id on the service console (in case you forgot to define this during the installation)
esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v X -p “Service Console” (enter the vlan number where X is)

Here is my actual output (VLAN tags have been changed to protect the innocent!)

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