How to install the NIC driver for ESXi

In the process of installing ESXi to the physical server often encounter network card driver problem, if it is Dell, HP, IBM and other vendors of the server, generally these manufacturers after the release of the new ESXi version of VMware will be repackaged, the relevant device driver added to ESXi inside, This reduces the manual installation of the driver for ESXi.

Some time ago the company has a new server, the standard is the Gigabit network card, and later purchased the Intel onboard 4 Port Wan port card, plugged in the server found that ESXi did not successfully identify the network card, even if the restart or reinstall ESXi is also the case, This is obviously due to the fact that the ESXI system does not contain this type of NIC driver.

Login ESXi can see only the server onboard the two Gigabit network card, and did not recognize the newly inserted 4 million

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For the specific model of the network card, you can also see in the ESXi Advanced settings, the following example is the 4 port Wan Port module of the Intel X710, and note that the model's device ID, vendor ID and other device ID information

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Open the official VMware Compatibility List:

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php and select Io Devices

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The NIC can be found by the ESXi version, vendor, device type on the left, but the more convenient way is to enter the product's vid (vendor ID) and did (device ID) on the right and quickly navigate to the NIC

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Locate the device of this model

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Click to see a detailed description, release note and release date, and then download it to your local

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Download the driver file named I40e-1.3.38-1331820-3010881.zip in this example

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First we want to make sure that the ESXi host shell is open

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The download to local driver will be uploaded to the TMP directory on the ESXi host using the WinSCP tool first, this example is to upload the local i40e-1.3.45-1331820-3165430.zip to the TMP directory on ESXi. It is generally recommended to upload to the TMP directory (mainly the TMP directory has permission to perform the installation)

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Then connect to the ESXi host with tools such as putty, and verify that the drive file exists in the TMP directory

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First, unzip this. zip file by unzip

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Take a look at the extracted files and then through the esxcli software vib install-v/tmp/net-i40e-1.3.45-ioem.550.0.0.131820.x86_64.vib command to install the VIB in the drive (this is the point of this article) and view the installation results

If uninstalling then use the command esxcli software vib remove-n xxx-f where xxx is the driver name

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Finally, to restart ESXi for this driver to take effect; After a reboot, you can see if the driver is correctly identified by the ESXCLI software vib List command.

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Command Lspci after reboot | grep ' network controller ' to see if the NIC is recognized

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You can view the information, port, rate, model number, MAC address and other information of ESXi Internet port via esxcfg-nics-l

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Finally, log in to the ESXi host to confirm that the driver has been successfully installed and identified

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In fact, although this article shows how to update the network card driver on ESXi, but actually update other ESXI hardware (such as disk, array card) is also the same steps, download the appropriate hardware from the official website driver using the following command to install it.

ESXCLI software vib install-v/tmp/you Drive file

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How to install the NIC driver for ESXi