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  • 1.  I cannot see my nic card that is in the pci slot-Dell 710

    Posted Jul 15, 2010 12:11 PM

    I have an extra nic card with 4 nics on my dell poweredges R710 but ESXi does not see it. What am I doing wrong?

    thanks

    Gary



  • 2.  RE: I cannot see my nic card that is in the pci slot-Dell 710

    Posted Jul 15, 2010 04:30 PM

    What type of your network card it is that not detected and it's one of your nics model was broadcom detect?

    • If only your NIC PCI-E (Intel) that you can't detected that was because of the driver, and also could be your NICS was not in VMWare HCL

    If correct that you NIC PCI-E was Intel Model, you may download the driver and inject to ESX Host. Follow below step

    • Download the driver at http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx_esxi40_intel_82575_82576_dt/ZHcqYmR0QGpidGR3

    • Use vSphere Client and Upload it to DATASTORE

    • Enter the ESX Host to maintenance mode

    • Log-in to ESX host using PUTTY(require root access).

      • # cd <path>/foldername/offline-bundle

      • e.g : # cd /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/driver/offline-bundle

      • # esxupdate --bundle=INT-intel-lad-ddk-igb-1.3.19.12.1-offline_bundle-185976.zip update.

    • Reboot and Exit from maintenance mode.

    Have a nice day!!~~



  • 3.  RE: I cannot see my nic card that is in the pci slot-Dell 710

    Posted Jul 15, 2010 10:16 PM

    Thank you very much for the info. I have not done this type of thing yet so I'm looking forward to doing it. I'm very familiar will Linux etc. so command line stuff should be pretty easy.

    Gary



  • 4.  RE: I cannot see my nic card that is in the pci slot-Dell 710

    Posted Jul 15, 2010 10:22 PM

    What manufacturer / model NIC are you using?



  • 5.  RE: I cannot see my nic card that is in the pci slot-Dell 710

    Posted Jul 16, 2010 01:01 PM

    I will have to look that up. thanks