hello community!
I've encountered a weird thing today...
My new home lab host just came and I'm super excited about it.
I have a problem though I couldn't load esxi because it kept complaining about not having nics available... obviously not true because the server came with a 530flr sfp+ card installed and seemingly working.
I loaded linux on the server and with lspci the card was there listed but due to strict time I had no chance of doing any more testing in linux...
I brought home for test a 4 port 1Gbps card and with that in the server I managed to load esxi 7.0
The fun begins here though...
This card received names vmnic2 3 4 and 5...
0 and 1 were not visible...
I did "esxcfg-nics -l" and same story...
I did lspci and as expected it listed as linux did the 2 nics on the 530flr... with vmnic0 and vmnic1 listed next to them. See picture attached for reference.
From compatibility matrix I know the card is compatible.
I downloaded from there the driver and did an esxcli software vib install but it skipped all vibs probably because already present in the machine...
My idea at this point is maybe a firmware issue... but I have no idea how to check what version is there and/or how to flash a newer one from esxcli...
Someone has ever incurred in such problems?
Thanks for any help!
Fabio
