We installed VMware vSphere Essentials 5.5 on a Cisco UCS C220 M3 a few months back. The server has been running fine until today.
The server had abrupt power loss over the weekend. After rebooting the server, we are getting the "No compatible network adapter found." message on the VMware console.
The only network adapters present, are the two onboard NICs. esxcfg-info | less -i revels both network cards are present:
PCI Device {lines omitted for brevity}
Runtime owner..........vmkernel
Vendor Name............Intel Corporation
Device Name.............I350 Gigabit Network Connection
Device Class Name...Ethernet Controller
However, esxcfg-nics -l reveals no physical NICs.
The command esxcli network nic up -n vmnic0 has an output of "There is no pnic with name vmnic0"
lspci -v | grep Gigabit lists vmnic0 and vmnic1
vmnic's 0 and 1 are also listed in /etc/vmware/esx.conf
Any suggestions would be helpful
