Do you have any further details on the chipset used for the 10GB nics? The 2 1GB nics are Intel i350 but nothing said about the 2 10GB on Supermicro's page...

Sorry, just missed that this is a relatively new Broadwell Xeon-D chipset. Guess the only option is to use VMWare 6 with that which might support the 2 SoC 10GB nics.

Have you checked Intel's support pages, maybe they provide a driver for VMWare?

I guess it will be natively supported with a future build of VMWare 6, you just could try to find a driver from another mainboard vendor.

Maybe one of the larger server vendors (IBM/Lenovo, HP, DELL ...) jumps in here.

I know that HP Gen8 servers have Intel I350 Powerville Network controller.

So maybe one can try latest HP ISO image. But cannot find any reference to I350-AM2.

The VMware HCL has some references to I350, but not I350-AM2 specifically.

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/vcl/result.php?search=i350&searchCategory=all

But the drivers listed there are already inbox, so if they do not find the NICs, the async driver will probably not do, too.

The Intel I350 1GB drivers are not the problem. Those should be working. He's looking for drivers for the on-SoC 10GB NICs. Those are Broadwell chipset specific.

I said this in another thread along the same lines, asking about these drivers...

There has been support for Linux for 2 driver releases now. ixgbe 4.0.3 (April 15 release) and now ixgbe 4.1.1 (June 17) - see here. For whatever reason, neither version has made it into a VIB driver package. The most recent VMWare driver is 3.23.21, which is from February.

Not keeping up on the driver releases that support the Intel 10GbE adapter in the Xeon D-1540 SoC kills the product line for visualization, unless you're going with Hyper-V or some variant of Linux (KVM / Xen / etc.)

The NIC driver is the only thing stopping me from deploying the D-1540 in my own cluster. Given that we now have native bandwidth hungry features like VSAN and 4 vCPU Fault Tolerance available to us, 10GbE is pretty much a staple for VMWare now. Have it, or pay the price - only we can't get it because the drivers haven't been updated in 4 months. Where's 4.0.3, at the very least?

So frustratingly I'm in the same boat...I put my name on a long term pre-order based on SuperMicro's stated ESXi6.0 support for this board. Whilst there was a statement on the SATA controller requirements for support the 10GbE SoC NICs weren't mentioned.

I've corresponded with SuperMicro support in the Netherlands who advise no driver exists and that although they have no doubt someone will create one they can't give me a schedule.  They've accepted that the OS compatibility matrix is wrong (and is based on the quad 1GbE model) and assure me they will update the website to clarify the issue.

Now l guess I have to talk to the reseller about my return/discount options.... :-(