Intel PCI-E 10Gigabit not reconized

[zemotard]

Hi, I have just received a new server dell R710.

This one includes 4 Nic on motherboard wich are recognized by vmware

But I have an additionnal 4 ports card Intel PCI-E 10Gigabit not reconized during installation of ESX4.

Can you tell me how can I do to use this 4 ports ?

Is it possible to load network driver ?

Thanks

[Dave_Mishchenko]

One of the drivers on this page may help - http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4#drivers_tools.




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[zemotard]

Thanks, do you know if it's possible to install this driver, when ESX4 is already installed ? Or I have to do an new installation from scratch ?

Regards

[Dave_Mishchenko · Accepted solution]

You can use vihostupdate or esxupdate for exsting installs.

B) 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 .zip

[zemotard]

Thanks for you very helpfull procedure, I find the good drivers :

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1464409#1464409

Thanks again mate