How to show load balancing policy in the COS?

Kelly Olivier had a good question on the VMTN Communities. How can I check from the Service Console which network load balancing I’m using? Of course his first bet was “vmware-vim-vmd” but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be an option to show which load balancing policy is being used.

As far as I know there’s another way to show this:

cat /etc/vmware/esx.conf | grep "teamPolicy\/team"

This would return the following:

/net/vswitch/child0001/teamPolicy/team = "lb_srcid"

Possible load balancing policies:
lb_srcid = Virtual port id
lb_ip = IP Hash
lb_srcmac = MAC Address

If anyone knows of any other methods of showing this info let me know and/or contribute to the topic on VMTN.

Update:

@lamw just posted that it is possible to get this info from vmware-vim-cmd:

vmware-vim-cmd hostsvc/net/vswitch_info | grep -E '(policy|name)'
      name = "vSwitch0",
         policy = (vim.host.NetworkPolicy) {
               policy = "loadbalance_ip",
      name = "vSwitch1",
         policy = (vim.host.NetworkPolicy) {
               policy = "loadbalance_srcid",
      name = "vSwitch5",
         policy = (vim.host.NetworkPolicy) {
               policy = "loadbalance_srcid",

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