Installing new phisical NIC at host (for newvies)

[anatanotenshi]

Greetings.

I'm trying to install a new nic, at host no VM, do anyone knows where do I look for

information about? I've been looking at KB without results. In redhat long time ago, there were some

utilities to detect them but I can not find them at the console. Any help

would be apreciated...

Thanks

[java_cat33 · Accepted solution]

Hi - If the nic is supported by your version of ESX (3.5) the nic will be detected automatically. If it's not displayed then it's not supported.

Check the VMware HCL

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

[Texiwill]

Hello,

From the command line use 'lspci' to list the available PCI devices, one of those should be your pNIC. However as the other poster stated, if the pNIC is not on the HCL it will generally NOT work.

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
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