I have a number of FX2 Chasiss populated with FC640 running QLogic Inc. QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters and I can confirm the the firmware and HCL confirm these work with ESXi 7.0u3. I can also confirm that we use OpenManage and maintain identical firmware, usually the latest, on all FC640s.
I have updated a number of my FC640s from 6.7 to 7.03u using a DELL image all of which work as expected.
However on one FC640 the QLogic Inc. QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters do NOT appear in the ESXI Host Client under Storage adapters even though the QLogic Inc. QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter appear when running CLI command as shown below:
[root@host1] esxcfg-nics -l
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
vmnic0 0000:18:00.0 qfle3 Up 10000Mbps Full d0:94:66:65:4c:01 9000 QLogic Inc. QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vmnic1 0000:18:00.1 qfle3 Up 10000Mbps Full d0:94:66:65:4c:04 9000 QLogic Inc. QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vmnic2 0000:62:00.0 bnxtnet Up 10000Mbps Full b0:26:28:7d:82:d0 9000 Broadcom BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller
vmnic3 0000:62:00.1 bnxtnet Up 10000Mbps Full b0:26:28:7d:82:d1 9000 Broadcom BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller
vmnic4 0000:63:00.0 bnxtnet Up 10000Mbps Full b0:26:28:7a:d0:20 9000 Broadcom BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller
vmnic5 0000:63:00.1 bnxtnet Up 10000Mbps Full b0:26:28:7a:d0:21 9000 Broadcom BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller
vusb0 Pseudo cdce Up 100Mbps Full 50:9a:4c:6e:fe:5d 1500 DellTM iDRAC Virtual NIC USB Device
[root@host1:~] lspci -v | grep -A1 -i ethernet
0000:18:00.0 Network controller Ethernet controller: QLogic Inc. QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [vmnic0]
Class 0200: 14e4:168e
--
0000:18:00.1 Network controller Ethernet controller: QLogic Inc. QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [vmnic1]
Class 0200: 14e4:168e
--
0000:62:00.0 Network controller Ethernet controller: Broadcom BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller [vmnic2]
Class 0200: 14e4:16d6
--
0000:62:00.1 Network controller Ethernet controller: Broadcom BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller [vmnic3]
Class 0200: 14e4:16d6
--
0000:63:00.0 Network controller Ethernet controller: Broadcom BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller [vmnic4]
Class 0200: 14e4:16d6
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0000:63:00.1 Network controller Ethernet controller: Broadcom BCM57412 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller [vmnic5]
Class 0200: 14e4:16d6
After having spent to much time troubleshooting this I decided to cut my losses and backup the host configuration ( https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2042141) and run an install using the DELL ESXi7 image.
After the install I can see the QLogic Inc. QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter in the ESXI Host Client under storage adapters however when I then restore backup (as shown above) the QLogic Inc. QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters disappear from the ESXi ESXI Host Client Storage adapters while still available from the command line as above.
Therefore the hardware is correctly confgured and something in the backup us removing the adapters from the ESXI Host Client storage adapters?
Of course I could so a fresh install (again) and configure from fresh but I have a large number of these to do a would prefer to understand and resolve this behaviour.
Does anyone know why I am getting this result of the QLogic Inc. QLogic 57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters NOT appearing in storage adapters in the ESXI Host Client but can see then from the CLI as expected. What is preventing them from being shown?
For reference I am running vCenter:
Build number:
21477706
And my hypervisor DELl image build is: VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 20842708
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