I have a ESXi 4.1 Server with 4 physical NIC ports. I have NIC1 set up as the management port. After a reboot, NIC1 physically changes location to one of the other NIC ports on the back of the server. The server manufacturer has told me that the NIC ports are all assigned by MAC address and NIC1 will always be NIC1, NIC2 will always be NIC2, etc. They say it's ESXi 4.1 that is reconfiguring the NIC ports.
I suspect that ESXi 4.1 is somehow reconfiguring the NIC ports upon reboot. Is there a way I can hard set each NIC port so that physically they are always configured the same on the back of the host server? Thanks