{"id":14,"date":"2015-04-17T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T10:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2015-04-17T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T10:44:35","slug":"vsphere-5-1-invalid-configuration-for-device-0-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/vsphere-5-1-invalid-configuration-for-device-0-error\/","title":{"rendered":"vSphere 5.1 Invalid configuration for device \u20180\u2019 error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this error when we encountered an issue in our infrastructure and several VMs connected to a Distributed Switch reported different problems.<\/p>\n<p>Couple of them were without any network connectivity and when checking VM Settings the Network Adapter was disconnected. Of course, I&#8217;ve checked the Connected option and received\u00a0the error\u00a0<em>Invalid configuration for device \u20180\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/connected.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/connected-300x83.png\" alt=\"connected\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/connected-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/connected.png 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/error.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/error-300x126.png\" alt=\"error\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/error-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/error.png 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solution to this issue is very simple, you just have to change the current distribution port group to a different one, and then move it back to the initial one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this error when we encountered an issue in our infrastructure and several VMs connected to a Distributed Switch reported different problems. Couple of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/vsphere-5-1-invalid-configuration-for-device-0-error\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">vSphere 5.1 Invalid configuration for device \u20180\u2019 error<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,13,12],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-virtualization","tag-vmware","tag-vsphere","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p63Lge-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelstoica.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}