prbrown Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Hi, I brought a network card for my N54L this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TG-3468-Gigabit-Express-Network/dp/B003CFATNI I plug it into the PCI3 slot when I plug a cable it's blinking however on my ESXI OS I'm unable to see it and I check on the Bios but I didn't find any menu to enable it or something like that.. Anyone have any idea what should I do? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 The card you have uses a Realtek chip. ESXi support for Realtek is not great. Most times you need to manually load the driver. What version of ESXi are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prbrown Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 I’m using esxi 6.0.0 I followed this guide: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1034782 And I didn’t see my VID DID. How to load the driver ? Should I get another nic ? thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I tend to use Intel based NIC's as they are supported by VMware. There are ways to load the Realtek drivers in ESXi. This is for your card in ESXi 5.5: https://tinkertry.com/tp-link-gigabit-pci-express-network-adapter-tg-3468-for-esxi-5-5-home-lab It appears the chip on your card is RTL8111/8168, here are instruction to load drivers for ESXi 6.0: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/506271?start=0&tstart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prbrown Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Thanks I manage to load the driver and now I have 2 NIC attached to my Proliant. One more thing which is very unfortunate is that I run a Xpenology as a VM and were thinking to take advantage of the 2 NIC but if I turn on the bond and plug my both NIC to my asus on the port aggregation Lan5/6 my ESXI and my other VM are unreachable. I might purshase a new NIC with 2 GB ports which will bypass this. Thanks anyway for your help!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prbrown Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Would you recommand this one : https://www.amazon.com/Gigabit-Ethernet-Converged-Network-Compatible/dp/B074PQWQB5/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2OW3VL3D02U50&dchild=1&keywords=intel%2Bdual%2Bport%2Bgigabit%2Bnic&qid=1585901806&s=electronics&sprefix=intel%2Bdual%2Celectronics%2C354&sr=1-2&th=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoondoggy Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 That should work. You can check the VMware compatibility guide to see if that Intel controller is listed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrf Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I would be surprised if not. I prefer to use the intel chips in all of my servers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenlip007 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 I find adding the VIB driver to a custom image usually works look around for ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.6.0.ps1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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