It can be done, just requires some code.
Try the following, it's based on the code in dvSwitch posts.
function Get-dvSwitch {
param([parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = $true)][string]$DatacenterName,
[parameter(Position = 1, Mandatory = $true)][string]$dvSwitchName)
function Get-dvSwitchInThisLocation {
param(
[parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = $true)]
[VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference]$LocationMoRef,
[parameter(Position = 1, Mandatory = $true)][string]$dvSwitchName
)
$location = Get-View $LocationMoRef
foreach($child in $location.ChildEntity){
if($child.Type -eq "Folder"){
Get-dvSwitchInThisLocation $child $dvSwitchName }
elseif($child.Type -eq "VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitch"){
$temp = Get-View $child
if($temp.Name -eq $dvSwitchName){
$temp
}
}
}
}
Get-dvSwitchInThisLocation (Get-Datacenter $DatacenterName).Extensiondata.NetworkFolder $dvSwitchName}
function Remove-dvSwHostNic {
param($dvSwitch, $hostMoRef, $pnic)
$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.DVSConfigSpec
$tgthost = New-Object VMware.Vim.DistributedVirtualSwitchHostMemberConfigSpec
$tgthost.Host = $hostMoRef
$currentBacking = ($dvSwitch.Config.Host | where {$_.Config.Host -eq [string]$hostMoRef}).Config.Backing
$tgthost.operation = "edit"
$tgthost.backing = New-Object VMware.Vim.DistributedVirtualSwitchHostMemberPnicBacking
$tgthost.Backing.PnicSpec = $currentBacking.PnicSpec | where {$_.PnicDevice -ne $pnic}
$spec.Host = $tgthost
$dvSwitch.UpdateViewData()
$spec.ConfigVersion = $dvSwitch.Config.ConfigVersion
$taskMoRef = $dvSwitch.ReconfigureDvs_Task($spec)
$task = Get-View $taskMoRef
while("running","queued" -contains $task.Info.State){
$task.UpdateViewData("Info")
}
}
$esxName = "MyEsx"
$dcName = "MyDatacenter"
$dvSwName = "dvSw1"
$removepnicName = "vmnic3"
$esx = Get-VMHost -Name $esxName
$dvSw = Get-dvSwitch -datacenter $dcName -dvswitchname $dvSwName
Remove-dvSwHostNic -dvSwitch $dvSw -hostMoRef $esx.ExtensionData.MoRef -pnic $removepnicName The code is a quick-and-dirty thing, but it works in my test environment.
Provide the ESX(i) name, the name of the datacenter, the name of the dvSwitch and the pnic you want to remove.
I'll add that Remove-dvSwHostNic function to my collection.
