I want to upgrade from ESXi 6.7 to ESXİ 7.0U1 we use supermicro server and there is no custom image on VMware website. I will instal an upgrade with standard ESXi 7.0U1 iso. but I checked the nic driver version. I didn't find download nic driver software. I am sharing my nic information. how I can find nic firmware? I wonder if the automatic driver comes in the standard iso image, I couldn't understand
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[root@ESX01:~] esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------ ------------ ------ ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:01:00.0 ixgbe Up Up 10000 Full xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 1500 Intel(R) 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Network Connection
vmnic1 0000:01:00.1 ixgbe Up Up 10000 Full xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 1500 Intel(R) 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Network Connection
[root@ESX01:~] ethtool -i vmnic0
driver: ixgbe
version: 4.4.1-iov
firmware-version: 0x800004e0
bus-info: 0000:01:00.0
[root@ESX01:~] vmkchdev -l |grep vmnic0
0000:01:00.0 8086:10fb 15d9:0870 vmkernel vmnic0
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