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  • 1.  Cheep (Ebay) NIC that supports ESXi-8

    Posted Mar 04, 2023 07:34 PM

    Hi All

    Trying to rebuild my home lab server and runup ESXi 8, but the box doesn't currently contain a NIC which is on the HCL for ESXi 8.x

    Any ideas of a really low spec NIC from a reasonable vendor (HPE \ INTEL \ Broadcom) I can buy that's on the HCL from the bay (In the end this server wont even be networked !!

    1 Port and 1 gig would be fine lol !

    What NIC (Card) are you using with ESXi v8 ??

    Thanks all

    P



  • 2.  RE: Cheep (Ebay) NIC that supports ESXi-8

    Posted Mar 05, 2023 03:40 AM

    Yea, thats a problem. They removed older drivers that supported cheap cards.  I guess via EBay I would try to find a card that matched up with the guide.

    https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/pdf/vi_io_guide.pdf

    --Alan

     



  • 3.  RE: Cheep (Ebay) NIC that supports ESXi-8

    Posted Mar 05, 2023 10:05 AM

    Blast thats really annoying ran a few searches and none i could find are how can i say value NICs !!

    I will stick with my lab at ESXi 7.x and my NICs running HP NC360Ts which are by comparison worthless !

    Need to post again on possibility's for partitioning a set up for a nested lab anyhow. 

    Cheers anyway

    P