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Once ESXi was built, I went to configure the Management Network, however there were no connected NICs in the network adapter settings of the Configure Management Network section in the DCUI. Add A Nic To An Esxi 6 How To Create CustomAdd A Nic To An Esxi 6 Install The DriversThere are two solutions to this problem: Create a custom ESXi image with the correct drivers injected and then rebuild the host using the custom ESXi installer image Manually install the drivers via the DCUI I went with option 2, however if you want to know how to create your own ESXi custom image, then I have documented it here How To Create custom VMware ESXi Image How To Install drivers in an ESXi host The following steps document how to install drivers into an ESXi host using the ESXi Shell from the DCUI. I had to do it this way as I didnt have network access to the host (other than via out-of-band management). If you have network access to your host, then you could simply do the install via SSH, following a similar process to the steps below but instead of mounting an ISO you could simply copy the drivers to the local datastore or something like that. Here are the steps I took to resolve my issue: Enable ESXi Shell From the DCUI, press F2 to customise the system Enter your root credentials when prompted From the menu, select Troubleshooting Options Enable ESXi Shell From the DCUI, press AltF1 to access the ESXi Shell Log in with root credentials Using your out-of-band management attach the ISO that contains the drivers. Add A Nic To An Esxi 6 Software List AllIf you dont have an ISO file you can create one using the Img Burn software List all of the CD-ROMs available to ESXi by running. Example: mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0 Mount the ISO so that you can access the driver files, by running the following. In my instance my CD-ROM mount path was vmfsvolumesDOWNLOADS If you are not sure what your CD-ROM label is, you find out by running. To do this you will need to know the exact path to the driver and the name of the driver VIB file To install a driver in ESXi, run the following command. This is essentially browsing the cd-rom (or iso) file via command line. Then if your VIB file is stored within a sub-folder you can run ls to browse the contents of the sub-folder. Alternatively you can navigate into the folder by running cd and then running ls to see the contents of the folder. Once you determine the path to the VIB and the file name, you can then use it in step 10. If you are unsure of how to use ls, see steps 8 and 9 for examples. You can also inject the driver into the installation ISO using ESXi-Customizer-PS. Caveats: The CDROM media must be created as type ISO, not UDF or other. I gave the CD a volume name of VIB so I could easily find it on the console. Be sure to do an ls vmfsvolumesVIB to see the correct case of your file name. Reply. Unfortunately i was unable to create a CD ISO image that was readable though, doing a ls after its mounted would only show folders and throws up errors with files. ![]() Reply Leave a Comment Cancel Reply Comment Comment Formatting You may use the following HTML tags and attributes in your comments: Markdown is also supported to style and format your comments, making it useful for when posting code.
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