The correct answer may be get off my butt and physically trace the cables and feel free to tell me that :-) now on to my question.
I am trying to find the switch ports that certain ESXi servers are connected to. I have the MAC address's of the NICs I wish to locate and I have been able to locate about 1/3 of them via the MAC table in my switches. the issue for the other 2/3 of the network cards is that they are assigned to vSwitchs and the server only appears to be actively using some of the assigned NICs so they aren't showing up in the switch MAC tables
I attached an example picture. there are 3 NICs but only one shows in the Switch MAC table currently.
Is there a way I can either query the NIC by its MAC to get the NIC to respond so it will show up in the switch MAC table or a way on ESXi to trigger the NIC to do something briefly so it registers?