Adding VIB to ISO with PowerCLI

[shaffan331987]

Can anyone help me on getting an ISO set up with PowerCLI (or any other method) with a custom VIB (NIC driver).  This method is not working for me Using the vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs
I am getting the error "cannot add vib" "which is not in the depot" when trying to run Add-Esxsoftwarepackage. 

If I try to add the VIB or ZIP of the VIB using Add-ESXSoftwareDepot I get the error message "Could not download from depot"

Any ideas?

[jrmunday]

Have a look at my notes in the attached Depot.txt file. This worked for me in the past when I was deploying ESXi 5.0 to HP DL380p Gen 8 servers and needed to inject the storage controller drivers.

Cheers,

Jon

[OlegKov]

Hello!

I solved this problem as follows.

There is a driver for Realtek 8111 NIC in vib format:

     net55-r8168-8.045a-napi.x86_64.vib

It needs to be added to the iso image of ESXi 6.7 for installation on a PC:

     VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0-8169922.x86_64.iso

1. Download the standard SoftwareDepot from www.vmware.com:

          VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-depot.zip

2. Lunch PowerCLI.

3. In PowerCLI connect the standard SoftwareDepot by typing:

          Add-EsxSoftwareDepot -DepotUrl D:\Distrib\System\VMware\VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-depot.zip

4. Get the ImageProfile list:

          Get-EsxImageProfile

    As result:

          Name                                          Vendor               Last Modified        Acceptance Level

          ----                                               ------                   -------------             ----------------

          ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-standard    VMware, Inc.     03.04.2018 2...     PartnerSupported

          ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-no-tools     VMware, Inc.     03.04.2018 2...     PartnerSupported

5. Clone standard ImageProfile:

          New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-standard -Name MyProfile -Vendor Oleg

6. Since our vib file has Acceptance Level - CommunitySupported, we need to set this Acceptance Level for our ImageProfile:

          Set-EsxImageProfile -ImageProfile MyProfile -AcceptanceLevel CommunitySupported

7. Add our vib to SoftwareDepot:

          Get-EsxSoftwarePackage -PackageUrl D:\Distrib\System\VMware\net55-r8168-8.045a-napi.x86_64.vib

     As result:

          Name                     Version                        Vendor     Creation Dat

                                                                                             e

          ----                          -------                            ------         ------------

          net55-r8168           8.045a-napi                  Realtek   16.04.201...

     (Pay attention to the name field as a result of the command)

8. Add our vib to ImageProfile:

          Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile MyProfile -SoftwarePackage net55-r8168

9. Export ImageProfile to ISO image:

          Export-EsxImageProfile -ImageProfile MyProfile -ExportToIso -FilePath D:\Distrib\System\VMware\MyISO.iso

10. To drink coffee

[AnmolM99]

I am Getting following error at step 8. 

Add-EsxSoftwarePackage : VIB Realtek_bootbank_net55-r8168_8.045a-napi requires vmkapi_2_2_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile MyProfile -SoftwarePackage net55 ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (VMware.ImageBuilder.Types.ImageProfile:ImageProfile) [Add-EsxSoftwarePackage], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : EsxImageProfileValidationError,VMware.ImageBuilder.Commands.AddProfilePackage

Add-EsxSoftwarePackage : VIB Realtek_bootbank_net55-r8168_8.045a-napi requires com.vmware.driverAPI-9.2.2.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile MyProfile -SoftwarePackage net55 ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (VMware.ImageBuilder.Types.ImageProfile:ImageProfile) [Add-EsxSoftwarePackage], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : EsxImageProfileValidationError,VMware.ImageBuilder.Commands.AddProfilePackage

Hopefully you can help. 

[kjanezic]

I also get error at step 8.  net-community VIB, profile has the same name. Seems like it wants esxi v7 but I need to install v6.7.

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/How-to-recognize-I219-V-LAN-port-to-ESXi-6-5-or-l...

https://communities.vmware.com/wbsdv95928/attachments/wbsdv95928/2006/280042/1/Net-Community-Driver_...

PS C:\Users\userx\Desktop> Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile net-community -SoftwarePackage net-community
Add-EsxSoftwarePackage : VIB VMW_bootbank_net-community_1.2.2.0-1vmw.700.1.0.15843807 requires vmkapi_2_6_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile. However,
additional VIB(s) VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.2-0.15.18295176, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.1-0.15.17168206, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.1-0.10.17119627,
VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.3-0.30.19482531, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.1-0.20.17325020, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.0-1.0.15843807,
VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.1-0.30.17551050, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.0-1.25.16324942, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.1-0.25.17325551, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.3-0.20.19193900,
VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.3-0.35.19482537, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.2-0.25.18538813, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.2-0.0.17867351,
VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.2-0.20.18426014 from depot can satisfy this requirement.
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile net-community -SoftwarePackage n ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (VMware.ImageBuilder.Types.ImageProfile:ImageProfile) [Add-EsxSoftwarePackage], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : EsxImageProfileValidationError,VMware.ImageBuilder.Commands.AddProfilePackage

[V6YA]

Thanks OlegKov, It's helped a lot. 

[Radovan1]

Thank you so much...👌