VMware exsi5.x 6.x does not recognize the resolution of the realtek8168 phase AR8151 NIC (package driver to Exsi Mirror)

1, problem description

Before using the wave or the dawn or the installation of their own server installed EXSi5.0, 5.5, 6.0 no problem at least did not appear to say there is no available network card and exit the installation. This is also very strange.

Hardware Environment Description

Computer model gigabyte desktop PC

Processor Intel third Daicouri i5-3450 @ 3.10GHz four core

Motherboard gigabyte h61m-s2p (Intel Ivy Bridge-h61 chipset)

Nic Qualcomm AR8151 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Nic Realtek rtl8169/8110 Family pci-e Gigabit Ethernet NIC

2, the cause of the problem

On the internet for half a day is nothing but the official VMware image does not support the driver like the RTL8168/8168,AR8151 network card. You need to use the esxi-customizer-v2.7.2 tool to encapsulate the driver into the installation image.

Note You need to be aware that installing EXSi5.5 and 6.0 requires host memory of 4G and above if the desktop plug in a 4GB memory really probably only 3.7GB this is also the inability to install the need to remind you to install EXSi5.5 or 6.0 of children's shoes in a virtual machine or desktop. EXSi5.0 seems to be 2GB memory.

3. Solutions

1 Download the NIC driver and Exsi Drive sub-assembly tool

http://down.51cto.com/data/2089782

• Included in exsi5.x 6.x
  Realtek8168 NIC Driver
  Realtek8169 NIC Driver
  atherosAR8151 NIC Driver
  atherosAR8161 NIC Driver
  and drive packaging tools
  esxi-customizer-v2.7.2

2 Installing EXSi5.0

Use the WinPE USB drive to copy the Vmware-vmvisor-installer-5.0.0.update02-914586.x86_64.iso to the ISOs directory, such as 650) this.width=650; "src=" http:// S3.51cto.com/wyfs02/m02/72/8f/wkiol1xmwwow4mhpaafwx8ipvi8761.jpg "title=" 1111.jpg "alt=" Wkiol1xmwwow4mhpaafwx8ipvi8761.jpg "/>

EXSi5.0 is able to identify the AlthorAR8151 NIC, so install 5.0 and then upgrade 5.0 to 5.5

3 using esxi-customizer-v2.7.2 to encapsulate the realtek8168 NIC driver in the EXSi5.5 installation image

Esxi-customizer Tools How to use reference

http://support.huawei.com/enterprise/docinforeader.action?contentId=DOC1000040218&idPath=7919749|9856522| 9856792|9581539

"7.2.3 making VMware Installation Source Installation"

Such as

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4 Upgrade EXSi5.0 to 5.5

Install the upgrade EXSi5.0 to 5.5 using the esxi-customizer-v2.7.2 encapsulated EXSi5.5 image Copy to the ISOs directory of the win PE. Process is not. You can consult me for any questions you may have.

Note that upgrades are not overwrite.

This article is from the "Flying Pig" blog, please be sure to keep this source http://thinkpig007.blog.51cto.com/971471/1690884

VMware exsi5.x 6.x does not recognize the resolution of the realtek8168 phase AR8151 NIC (package driver to Exsi Mirror)