I have an ibm xseries x3630 M4 Server. Network Interface Intel Ethernet Controller I350 Dual 1Gb on board + Intel I-350 Embedded Dual Port GbE Activation for IBM System x Feature on Demand (FoD).
Has 4 ports and only 2 of the ports on the nic show as Active. And only 1 of them are actually working. Anyone have a Fix for this. Need to have all four ports working.
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Have you tried the install with 5.1? There is an updated driver for the i350 NICs which you can get from here - https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0#driver....
If you were to access the support console (or enable SSH) and run lspci -p I would guess that the NICs might be listed but might not have a driver loaded for them.
I'd start with the 5.1 install image or just upgrade to 5.1.
Problem is that I only have licenses for 5.0 and not 5.1.
The licenses are for major version (e.g. 5.x) so they will work with ESXi 5.1 too. I'd suggest you check what's required and either update the driver and/or ESXi.
André
