I have seen several variations of this question get asked internally on how how to retrieve the DVPort ID and/or Stats on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS). Usually the question is prefaced with an example output from an ESXi host like the one show below using a classic CLI called esxcfg-vswitch. As you can see, there are a number of DVPort IDs which are either mapped to a physical NIC on the ESXi host or to a specific VM and its network adapter, if there is more than one.
My usual response for these sort of questions is that yes, it can be programmatically and automatically retrieved without going directly to an ESXi host. The answer is by using the vSphere API and specifically the set of methods provided by the VirtualDistributedSwitch managed object, which will allow users to retrieve all things related to the VDS.
Note: Although PowerCLI does provide some higher level cmdlets for managing VDS and Distributed Virtual Portgroups (DVPG), not everything that is available in VDS API is available through these higher level cmdlets, but that does not mean you can not use PowerCLI to easily retrieve all this additional information.
