I have ESXi 5.0 FREE version; works great except this one issue I cannot resolve.
I have 2x Intel NICs, 10GE dual port 82599EB.
Issue: only first 1st port of the card is getting detected and available through vSphere client. I checked this by matching the MAC addresses.
From ESXi CLI the network list shows 2 1G ports (which is fine), and 2 10G ports (which should be 4)
~ # esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------ ------------- ------ ---- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ----------------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:002:00.0 ixgbe Down 0 Half 90:e2:ba:0c:34:c0 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection
vmnic2 0000:003:00.0 e1000e Up 100 Full 10:bf:48:00:2a:31 1500 Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic3 0000:004:00.0 e1000e Down 0 Half 10:bf:48:00:2b:a5 1500 Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic4 0000:005:00.0 ixgbe Down 0 Half 90:e2:ba:19:b6:98 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection
If I look at PCI list of devices, you shall see all 6 (2x 1G and 4x 10G showing up there).
~ # lspci | grep vmnic
000:002:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection [vmnic0]
000:002:00.1 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection [vmnic1]
000:003:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection [vmnic2]
000:004:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection [vmnic3]
000:005:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection [vmnic4]
000:005:00.1 Network controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection [vmnic5]
I updated the driver via CLI, using the following VIB file from VMware's site:
Intel_bootbank_net-ixgbe_3.9.13-1OEM.500.0.0.472560.vib
So what is the issue, could someone share? I am a new user to VMware (1 week).
Is it a license (because it is free) issue? Or driver? Or user error?
Appreciate any leads, I am stuck and it is now starting to impact a rollout; it is making VMware look not so cool right now.