ESXi and Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port EXPI9402PT

[Petrovichski]

Hello,

Iam trying to use the following network card with ESXi:

Before buying the card I checked the I/OCompatibility Guide and assumed the following ment the card would be supported (page 32 from the Oct. 15, 2008 version of the guide):

Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter e1000 7.3.15 e1000 7.3.15 e1000 7.3.15

It seems it may not be as after booting if I enter the unsupported console I see no results when I run the 'esxcfg-nics -l'. Is there anything I can do to get this card working? I am new to ESXi so perhaps I am missing some configuration detail.

Thanks in advance.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

You can also run the commands lspci and lspci -p to see if ESXi has recognized the model of NIC and if so if it has loaded the driver for it. It may be that NIC you're using has a newer PCI id that is not in the ESXi PCI database. If that's the case you may just need to modify oem.tgz to add support for it.

[tru]

there has been some issues with some intel card mentioned on these threads

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/173597

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/173549

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/125883

bottom line (unless I got it completely wrong):

some intel cards with the e1000 driver might have issue, while the ones using the igb driver works fine.

[Petrovichski]

I tried booting with a Linux live CD and found I could see the card when I did an lspci. I moved to the card to another slot and checked again, and the card showed up:

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)

Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 115e

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 2297

Memory at f9d80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) size=128K

Memory at f9d60000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) size=128K

I/O ports at a880 size=32

Expansion ROM at f9d40000 disabled size=128K

Kernel driver in use: e1000e

Kernel modules: e1000e

01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)

Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 115e

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 2298

Memory at f9de0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) size=128K

Memory at f9dc0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) size=128K

I/O ports at ac00 size=32

Expansion ROM at f9da0000 disabled size=128K

Kernel driver in use: e1000e

Kernel modules: e1000e

I then tested in ESXi and it worked! So I can confirm this card is working with ESXi without any modifications.