Hi,
Can we add physical NIC to ESXi Server after we have installed ESXi 5 to the box? Will ESXi 5 detect the new physical NICs?
I have a home lab at home with a beefy server which I have VMware workstation 8 installed on it.
I have created 7 VMs to be as my ESXi Servers, one DC and one vCenter Server (All VMs)
My original configuration for ESXi VMs was to have 8 NICs in them to do some testing. (specially dVS)
after the 4th ESXi VM I forgot to add NIC Cards while I was creating the VM and installed ESXi with only 1 nic card.
After adding the esxi to my vcenter I recognized my mistake. So I shutdown the ESXi and added 7 more NICs.
My assumption was after rebooting the ESXi, the new NICs will be detected. But apparently not.
I know that I haven't hit any maximums in my VMware workstation 8 because in ESXi6 and ESXi7 I remembered to add NIC Cards before the installation and I can see them in my vCenter Server.
What am I missing? Is it because the ESXi are nested or even in Physical environment if I add NICs, they will not be detected after the reboot?
I am pretty sure this was not the case in vSphere 4.
Thanks