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Community Network Driver for ESXi Documentation 

Dec 09, 2023 10:17 PM

Community Network Driver for ESXi

Summary

This Fling is a collection of ESXi Native Drivers which enables ESXi to recognize and consume various PCIe-based network adapters (See Requirements below details). These devices are not officially on the VMware HCL and have been developed to enable and support the VMware Community.

Contributors

  • Shu Wu
  • Songtao Zhen
  • William Lam

Changelog

Mar 15, 2022 - v1.2.7
 
Net-Community-Driver_1.2.7.0-1vmw.700.1.0.15843807_19480755.zip
      md5: cd505cfc2e435510b2e23e87870e4822

What's New:
  • Support for additional Intel I225 devices with any PHY ID
  • Support for new Intel I226-K devices with any PHY ID
  • Fixed potential deadlock in changing MTU
  • Fixed potential RX hang in device layer ops
  • Fixed potential PHY reset failure
Oct 29, 2021 - v1.2.2

Net-Community-Driver_1.2.2.0-1vmw.700.1.0.15843807_18835109.zip
      md5: 5d508eb40d578dd0ec6de3838c8cec13

What's New:
  • Support for additional Intel I225/I226/I220/I221 devices
May 19, 2021 - v1.2

Net-Community-Driver_1.2.0.0-1vmw.700.1.0.15843807_18028830.zip
      md5: fc3b23201d78d3b0d75c8a4fcad759f3

What's New:
  • Support for Jumbo Frames (MTU up to 9000)
  • Support for Wake-on-LAN (WOL) for Intel i225 NIC
April 08, 2021 - v1.1

Net-Community-Driver_1.1.0.0-1vmw.700.1.0.15843807_17858744.zip
      md5: 587d7d408184c90f6baf4204bb309171

What's New:
  • Resolve issue when using Intel vPro which can cause ESXi PSOD
February 17, 2021 - v1.0 (Initial Release)

Net-Community-Driver_1.0.0.0-1vmw.700.1.0.15525992_17594603.zip
      md5: 23eb1a3084b096333ea5789fbfb86ef2

Known Issues:
  • The igc-community driver currently does not include optimization features such as Jumbo Frames/TSO/CSO/VLAN stripping

Requirements

  • VMware ESXi 7.0 (x86) or newer is required
  • Any PCIe network adapters with VID/PID listed below are supported
igc-community (All devices below is now available in ESXi 8.0 and newer)
Vendor Chipset VendorID ProductID
Intel Ethernet Connection (6) I219-LM 0x8086 0x15bd
Intel Ethernet Connection (6) I219-V 0x8086 0x15be
Intel Ethernet Connection (7) I219-LM 0x8086 0x15bb
Intel Ethernet Connection (7) I219-V 0x8086 0x15bc
Intel Ethernet Connection (10) I219-LM 0x8086 0x0d4e
Intel Ethernet Connection (10) I219-V 0x8086 0x0d4f
Intel Ethernet Connection (11) I219-LM 0x8086 0x0d4c
Intel Ethernet Connection (11) I219-V 0x8086 0x0d4d
Intel Ethernet Connection (12) I219-LM 0x8086 0x0d53
Intel Ethernet Connection (12) I219-V 0x8086 0x0d55
Intel Ethernet Connection (13) I219-LM 0x8086 0x155b
Intel Ethernet Connection (13) I219-V 0x8086 0x155c
Intel Ethernet Connection (13) I219-LM 0x8086 0x15fb
Intel Ethernet Connection (13) I219-V 0x8086 0x15fc
Intel Ethernet Connection (14) I219-LM 0x8086 0x15f9
Intel Ethernet Connection (14) I219-V 0x8086 0x15fa
Intel Ethernet Connection (15) I219-LM 0x8086 0x15f4
Intel Ethernet Connection (15) I219-V 0x8086 0x15f5
Intel Ethernet Connection (16) I219-LM 0x8086 0x1a1e
Intel Ethernet Connection (16) I219-V 0x8086 0x1a1f
Intel Ethernet Connection (17) I219-LM 0x8086 0x1a1c
Intel Ethernet Connection (17) I219-V 0x8086 0x1a1d

e1000-community (All devices below is now available in ESXi 7.0 Update 3f and newer)
Vendor Chipset VendorID ProductID
Intel Ethernet Controller I225-LM 0x8086 0x15f2
Intel Ethernet Controller I225-V 0x8086 0x15f3
Intel Ethernet Controller I225-IT(2) 0x8086 0x0d9f
Intel Ethernet Controller I225-I 0x8086 0x15f8
Intel Ethernet Controller I225-K 0x8086 0x3100
Intel Ethernet Controller I225-K(2) 0x8086 0x3101
Intel Ethernet Controller I225-LMvP(2) 0x8086 0x5502
Intel Ethernet Controller I226-K 0x8086 0x5504
Intel Ethernet Controller I226-LM 0x8086 0x125b
Intel Ethernet Controller I226-V 0x8086 0x125c
Intel Ethernet Controller I226-IT 0x8086 0x125d
Intel Ethernet Controller I220-V 0x8086 0x15f7
Intel Ethernet Controller I221-V 0x8086 0x125e

Instructions

Step 1 - Download the Offline Bundle zip file for the Community Networking Driver for ESXi and upload to ESXi host using either SCP or Datastore Browser

Step 2 - Install the ESXi Offline Bundle by running the following command on ESXi Shell to install ESXi Offline Bundle:
 
esxcli software vib install -d /path/to/the offline bundle zip
Step 4 - Reboot the ESXi host for the change to go into effect. Once the host has rebooted, ESXi should now allow be able to claim and use the network adapter.

Note: For the Intel NUC 11 (Pro/Performance), you will need to incorporate the Community NVMe Driver for ESXi into a new ESXi Image Profile before you can install. You can use either the Image Builder UI in vCenter Server or Image Builder CLI with PowerCLI.

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Voltrix
Jul 30, 2024 11:52 PM

Link is found by going to Home - Flings (broadcom.com) or directly at https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/BROADCOM/092f2b51-ca4c-4dca-abc0-070f25ade760/UploadedImages/Flings_Content/Net-Community-Driver-1.2.7.0-1vmw.700.1.0.15843807-19480755-dl.zip

Daniel McGowan
Jul 25, 2024 06:46 PM

Was able to find Net-Community-Driver_1.2.7.0-1vmw.700.1.0.15843807_19480755.zip on the Internet Archive website.

neoval
Mar 09, 2024 06:17 AM

Will there be support for  Ethernet Connection (22) I219-LM  

dob71
Feb 29, 2024 07:45 AM

I can't find anything online except the VIB files. Where are the sources?

jjardina
Dec 18, 2023 10:09 PM

I was able to find it by using some other documentation, not on VMware's document or flings downloads...

https://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/community-network-driver/Net-Community-Driver_1.2.7.0-1vmw.700.1.0.15843807_19480755.zip 

You would think that VMware would give us this link in their documentation.  Good luck!

tolkewitz
Dec 16, 2023 12:16 PM

where i find the "offline bundle" as zip?

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