Broadcom Netxtreme 1 network card not detected in vSphere ESXi 5.0(Essential) running on IBM Server x3650 M3

[vickyshiv123]

Hi,

We have installed  two new Broadcom Netxtreme I Dual port Gigabit Ethernet NIC adapter on IBM x3650 M3 server, the thing here is we could able to see the NIC adapter on the server bios level but not able to see on the ESXi host. FYI,  ESXi 5.0 (Essential) is installed on this server, no update manager in the environment. My query.is

1. Do we need to any driver on the esxi host level inorder to detect the nic adapters, if its yes what driver need to be installed.and how ?

2. On other end, the server nic port is connected to the Network switch, any configuration needs to be done on the switch level (vlan)?

Kindly advise on the above ones

Much appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance

Vick

[Techie01]

Can you post the output of "lspci -vvv" command from esxi

also post the output of "esxcli software vib list |grep -i bnx"

[CHSVMWare]

We are seeing a similar thing on one of our IBM servers.  Did any find a solution to this?