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You could try Wireshark, and port mirroring.
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You could try Wireshark, and port mirroring.

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Why can't tcpdump be used to capture this information
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Why can't tcpdump be used to capture this information

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Interesting so it only targets vmkernel port groups good to know and I learned something once again... :o)
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Interesting so it only targets vmkernel port groups good to know and I learned something once again... :o)

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I know you can use tcpdump to capture management traffic but is there a way to monitor physical nics assigned to VM guest traffic besides setting up a vDS with promiscuous moide
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I know you can use tcpdump to capture management traffic but is there a way to monitor physical nics assigned to VM guest traffic besides setting up a vDS with promiscuous moide

ESXi 5.1 VM Guest Network Traffic

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.