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JamesTav
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Issues Hypervisor install due to network card issue and ESXi Customizer fails

Good day,

I am an absolute novice with VMWare and want to build a test bench environment.

I have tried to do an install of VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 but that failed due to the network card not being found/compatible.

After some research I found the ESXi Customizer PS and have been trying to create an ISO with my network card driver included,,,, but the script times out.

Script commands I have tried are:

.\ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.6.0 -v67 -load net-r8168 -outDir G:\ -log G:\ESXi-Customizer-PS.log -nsc

.\ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.6.0 -v67 -load net-r8168 -outDir C:\Users\james\Desktop\ESXI -log C:\Users\james\Desktop\ESXI\ESXi-Customizer-PS.log -nsc

.\ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.6.0 -v67 -load net-r8168 -pkgDir C:\Users\james\Desktop\ESXI\Driver -outDir G:\ -log G:\ESXi-Customizer-PS.log -nsc

The script proceeds well and then always seems to fail at the same point...

An unexpected error occured:

[WinError 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

I have attached a copy of the log file for your info.

Thanks in advance for the assistance.

Regards James

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scott28tt
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See this thread: Problem including driver net-r8168 in ESXi 7.0 Iso using ESXi-Customizer-PS-2.7.0

That type of driver is not supported with 7.0.

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scott28tt
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See this thread: Problem including driver net-r8168 in ESXi 7.0 Iso using ESXi-Customizer-PS-2.7.0

That type of driver is not supported with 7.0.

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hkk307
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Hi JamesTav​,

Thank you for choosing VMware Communities.

Please provide me the Hardware Model details of the ESXi Server.

Regards,

Hemanth

Regards, Hemanth Kumar K vSphere Install-Upgrade Support
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peetz
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Hello James and welcome to the forums!

First of all, Scott's answer is correct: As of today there is no Realtek NIC driver that works with ESXi 7.0.

The latest version of ESXi that works with a Realtek NIC is 6.7, and even with that you need to use the community supported net55-r8168 driver (see https://vibsdepot.v-front.de/wiki/index.php/Net55-r8168 ). So you should be able to build a working ESXi 6.7 image with the switches -v67 -vft -load net55-r8168.

However, the error that you are seeing with the script is caused by incompatible SSL encryption settings on your system. There is a suggested fix in this Github issue, but it doesn't seem to work for everyone:

"[WinError 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host" during "Exporting t...

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