Hello, I have two servers IBM x3655 with ESX4, each with two Broadcom Nextreme II 10Gb 57710 single port, the ESX 4 see the NIC´s and the output of the esxcfg-nics -l show, Link "Up", Speed "10000Mbps", Duplex "Full", but from the switch side (1000Mbps), the Link Led is off,
From the GUI i tried to change the Speed of the NIC, it shows only two options, Auto negotiate and 10000Mbps Full and none of these has resulted in connectivity.
Does anyone out there have any suggestion what I might do to resolve my issues?
Thanks!
I already tried downloading the "VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0 Driver CD for Broadcom NetXtreme II Ethernet Network Controllers" from
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx_40_bnx2x_dt/ZHcqYmR3KmVidGR3
and follow this procedure but with the same result.
To update or add drivers on existing ESX installations using esxupdate:
(for ESX only)
1. Power on the ESX host and log into an account with administrator capability.
2. Place the driver CD in the CD-ROM drive of the ESX host.
3. Mount the driver CD.
4. Navigate to <cd mount point>/offline-bundle/ and locate the
<offline-bundle>.zip file.
5. Run the esxupdate command to install drivers using the offline bundle.
esxupdate --bundle=<offline-bundle>.zip update
