Nic down

[New_User_999]

HP 650FLB with 6 nic. After a reboot one of the nics is listed as down. If we manually run “esxcli network nic down –n vmnic” and then “esxcli network nic up –n vmnic”, it goes up.

It stays like this until after a reboot, where it goes back down again.

[MKguy · Accepted solution]

Make sure you update the NIC to the latest HP firmware and update the elxnet driver.

You can check the current driver version with:

# esxcli software vib list | grep elxnet

2 recent elxnet drivers for your NIC and ESXi 6.x are available here:

elxnet-10.5.121.7-1OEM.600.0.0.2159203.x86_64

http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/latest/esxi-600-devicedrivers/VMW-ESX-6.0.0-elxnet-10.5.121.7-2793842.zi...

elxnet-10.7.110.13-1OEM.600.0.0.2768847.x86_64

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESXI60-EMULEX-ELXNET-10711013&productId=49...