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so when using upgrade you didn't have intel i350 drivers, or didn't have the Broadcom nic drivers?   using install did install the missing "XXX" driver? Worth noting:  be sure you are using the latest esxi 7 installer, not the initial release - use esxi7 U3 version, which has patches fixes and new drivers in it, over the older/initial release 7.0 version.

1. Toggle PCIE device passthrough in the ESXI host 2. Reboot the host  3. Make sure VM is powered off. 4. On the VM you are passing through, first make sure there are no snapshots- if any delete & consolidate all snapshots.  Note:  you can't have or use snapshots on a VM that has GPU passthrough setup. 5. Disable/uncheck CPU features: IOMMU and hardware assisted virtualization passthrough 6. Reserve memory in the VM (make sure the host has enough free at the time you power on the VM - eg if you have 16GB reserved, the but the host only has 10 Free right now, power on VM will fail).  7. Edit VM hardware config and Add the GPU.  8. power on VM and install the drivers.  The basics are covered here in video form here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFXtUaFjiO4&t=3s CPU:    Mem:

@daphnissov stop being such a sourpuss.  I run vmware on all kinds of non conventual devices and always looking for new ways of getting it to work...if we can get it to work it can be a valuable tool for learning or use.  go post on facebook.

use intel i350 nic.  dual or quad are easy to get from ebay for around $50. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1313&_nkw=intel+i350&_sacat=0 "60% of the time they work every time"

Amazing this bug still exists in VCSA7!  For me it appeared to happen when I checked for updates when internet service hadn't been restored (during a planned outage).  UI is stuck at checking for update 10% since last Saturday.  There is no way to cancel the update and it hasn't timed out on it's own after three days.   There should be an option to cancel the update check and or the update check should timeout after a given time.

any update?  Also have you looked for system bios and NIC firmware updates for the i225-v?  and enabled all VM options in system bios? https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/vcl/result.php?search=i225&searchCategory=all&%26lpos%3Dapps_scodevmw+%3A+0=Search "About Intel® drivers If you purchased an OEM branded server or appliance, contact your OEM for a SW driver version that is compatible with your exact FW version. Using SW and FW versions that have not been validated to work together will affect performance, feature availability, and system stability."

No, doesn't look like it.   You need the correct CPU/VMD CPU support; VMD firmware; and motherboard/VMD firmware support.  From what I can tell the HPE 10 mini only supports the older style VROC for SATA drives.  but do reach out to HPE to confirm.  they will usually have documentation and drivers available if supported.   You can get a SATA raid card...just double check it's on the vmware HQL for version 7 & 8. https://www.storagereview.com/review/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-plus-review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbnlEVi9oEE&t=172s Here is an example where is it supported/implemented by SuperMicro:  https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/AOC-VROCxxxMOD_VMware_ESXi.pdf "Note ESXi* supports VMD Enabled NVMe* RAID 1 Boot Volumes and data stores created with Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC) version 7.5 on supported platforms." Intel documentation: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000037947/server-products/legacy-server-products.html Here are the VROC versions and their supported configs:  https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000030310/memory-and-storage/datacenter-storage-solutions.html VMware inbox in ESXI 8.0 U1:  https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=43948 Here is a good example:  if you have latest gen4 scalable CPU with support for VROC 8 and VMD 3: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/ssd-software/Intel_VROC_VMD_Supported_Configs_8_0.pdf

wait, you are concerned how 10DWPD SSD will hold up?  You do realize this is way over the expected life of spinning drives, with less power consumption, less heat, less risk of vibration damage, and less time under load, since data is read/written so quickly, and much much faster rebuild times. For context, I have been runing SAS and SATA SSDs with mix of  1 to 3 DRPD for years...(no 10DRPD in service yet) typically in raid 1 and raid 10.  zero drive failures yet.  My worst case right now is drives with only 80% life left, and servers will notify me when they get down to 20% life left so we can replace well ahead of expected failure.  I still have yet to replace a failed SSD in RAID, while it's on the regular to replace failed spinning drives in RAID arrays I manage....and let's not forget spinning drive take SOOOOO long to rebuild/risking a 2nd drive failure during rebuild.   SSD drives rebuild array so fast (observed in testing drive replacement scenario, since have not yet seen one fail in production yet).

RealTek sucks across the board anyway...  Better to spend time locating an intel or other natively supported nic. or even a USB nic that works:  https://williamlam.com/2022/02/usb-network-adapters-without-using-the-usb-network-native-driver-for-esxi.html

Patched to latest build 7.0.3 Build 21424296 with UI 2.9.2 without issues.  Note there is also full iso files available for this update, update  "L", if needed.  https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/7_0

or bypass:    reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\LabConfig /v BypassTPMCheck /t REG_DWORD /d 00000001   reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\LabConfig /v BypassSecureBootCheck /t REG_DWORD /d 00000001

VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_2.1.1-20188605.vib is still in VMware-ESXi-7.0U3k-21313628-depo as well. They haven't released a new rev to the 2.X ui yet. Still odd the new UI is not mentioned in the patch release notes.