Hi there,
did you try esxcli network nic up -n vmnicX ? More info here: VMware KB: The esxcli network nic down/up commands fail to restart a NIC
No i didnt try and also this module interfaces are never be up all ports leds are blink continuously.
Then please try that command out where vmnicX is the vmnic you want to try to bring up- so you will enter vmnic2 through vmnic7. Please report your results back here, this is quite odd situation.
today i tried again but nothing change definitely odd situation and i have no any idea about this issue.
i think it seems like some controller services for interfaces are not running.
Hi ahtapok,
what is your hardware (vendor)?
what is build of your installed ESXi?
Hi vlho,
its little bit complicate also its IPS (Intrusion prevention system) device but i delete IPS running system and installed esxi5.5.0 i cant share which vendor but i can share which CPU whic nic etc. is it useful? which other information do you need?
thank you.
Hi,
I asked what is vendor of your server or motherboard where is running ESXi,
ie. HP, Dell, IBM, etc.
And what is build of your installed ESXi, e.g. 2302651...
What ixgbe NIC driver version are you running? Check with this command:
# esxcli software vib list | grep ixgbe
A recent ixgbe driver version (3.15.1.8-1OEM.550.0.0.1198611) is available here:
http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/dec2014/esxi-550-devicedrivers/ixgbe-3.15.1.8-1240857.zip
Also post the output of the following command:
# esxcli hardware pci list | grep "Device Class: 0x0200" -A20 -B15
I've checked the PCI ID information of your specific NIC and it's not on the VMware HCL:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=io
It's not even part of the PCI devices database:
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids
This seems like a special kind of bypass adapter. You mentioned this is a re-purposed IPS system, so it makes sense and I suppose it relies on a special driver provided by the IPS OS to function properly. With other OSes and their default drivers, this will probably cause weird issues like you're experiencing. I don't think there is an easy/feasible way to get these NICs to work on ESXi.
As a side note, on an IPS system I have the actual NICs are not exposed as normal NIC devices to the bare (Linux-based) IPS OS either, but instead abstracted somewhere at the driver/kernel level.