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rdunbar
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Chelsio T520-BT & ESXi 6.7U3 problems

Hi,

I have a DellEMC PowerEdge C6220 II, 4-node system

each node has a dual-port Chelsio T520-BT network card.

I can see the card in esxi web interface under hardware pci-devices , but it does not show up as a physical NICs.

 

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rdunbar
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[root@esxi-01:~] lspci | grep Chelsio
0000:05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Chelsio Communications Inc T520-BT Unified Wire Ethernet Controller
0000:05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Chelsio Communications Inc T520-BT Unified Wire Ethernet Controller
0000:05:00.2 Ethernet controller: Chelsio Communications Inc T520-BT Unified Wire Ethernet Controller
0000:05:00.3 Ethernet controller: Chelsio Communications Inc T520-BT Unified Wire Ethernet Controller
0000:05:00.4 Ethernet controller: Chelsio Communications Inc T520-BT Unified Wire Ethernet Controller
0000:05:00.5 SCSI storage controller: Chelsio Communications Inc T520-BT Unified Wire Storage Controller
0000:05:00.6 Fibre Channel: Chelsio Communications Inc T520-BT Unified Wire Storage Controller

[root@esxi-01:~] esxcfg-nics -l
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
vmnic0 0000:02:00.0 igbn Up 1000Mbps Full e0:db:55:fc:d0:39 1500 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic1 0000:02:00.3 igbn Down 0Mbps Half e0:db:55:fc:d0:3a 1500 Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic2 0000:82:00.0 ixgben Up 10000Mbps Full 00:8c:fa:54:1e:92 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection
vmnic3 0000:82:00.1 ixgben Up 10000Mbps Full 00:8c:fa:54:1e:93 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection

 

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e_espinel
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Hello

According to the compatibility matrix you should have the Driver cxl version 2.0.0.21-1OEM and firmware 1.17.14.0 for Chelsio T520-BT NIC.

link: https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=45316

But According to the compatibility matrix the PowerEdge C6220 II It is only supported up to version 6.0U3.

https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/vcl/result.php?search=PowerEdge+C6220+II&searchCatego...

 

 

Enrique Espinel
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rdunbar
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Thanks @e_espinel .

I started with the original DellEMC 5.5, then upgraded to 6.0, then to 6.5.

and that was the last supported version on that hardware, I did not try VMware version of esxi just the DellEMC version.

When I tried to upgrade to DellEMC 6.7, i got an error about not supporting upgrade from 6.5 to 6.7 with this hardware.

So i had to do a clean install of 6.7

 

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