I just performed a fresh install of ESX 3.5 on two Dell Poweredge 2970 servers. Neither install configured the Virtual Switch and Service console. Any ideas as to why? Both physical NICs and the loopback interface are recognized.
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network status shows the expected active physical devicess, but no mention of vswif0.
ifconfig -a shows both physical ports, vmnic0 and vmnic1.