network card upgrade (on server)

[StefanoChiappin]

Hi all,

I have to upgrade the present network card (1 port) on my ESX 3.5 servers with anew one (4 ports). Is there any procedure/activity to perform before shutting down ESX, open the server and change the card ? Will it be recognized automatically or I need to install some software ?

I will also add (8GB ram, but I suppose this is a painless upgrade...

Thank you for any suggestion, I would not like to destroy my server with its VMs.

Stefano

[Texiwill]

Hello,

As long as you are completely removing the single port card you should have no issues. It should recognize the new card on boot. If you were moving the 1 port then there would be some steps to take.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education. As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[aldin]

I think this article will be helpful to you

[StefanoChiappin]

Great, the procedure to renumber the nics worked fine !

Thanks to both .