Cheap PCI/PCIe NIC cards that work with esxi 6.x & esxi 5.x

[lvaibhavt]

Hi All,

I have bought a custom desktop and I am planning to deploy esxi (6 or 5) on it; just wanted to check the PCI/PCIe NIC cards that work with ESXi 6.x & 5.x

Thanks

Vaibhav

[krishnanmurali]

What's the model ?

Check yourself:

VMware certified NIC here

Non-certified but reported working here

[JarryG]

I have bought a few Intel dualport "ET" NICs on eBay for a few bucks and they all work without any problem. If you can, stay away from desktop-NICs (low performance, high cpu-load). Check HCL to be sure, but if you pick server-models, you should be safe...