Realtek network interface card used to be supported in older esxi releases but in newer versions, the chipset was removed from hardware compatibility list.
If you have motherboard with such such chipset, you can try with this workaround. You can “slipstream” Realtek NIC driver into latest esxi iso as I have found out.
To achieve this, all you need to have is Windows OS with PowerShell. Let’s start with the installation of VMware powercli. Download thru this link and install.
Next you have to enable executions of script inside PowerShell. Launch PowerShell as Administrator
and type these command to enable script execution.
powershell Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
and to verify the whether it has been enabled, type:
powershell Get-ExecutionPolicy
Next we will download the main script that will create the slipstreamed iso. The script was prepared by good folks at v-front.de and complete with its own online driver depot.
To view all available script parameter, put -help. For example:
With this info, you can start to perform it right away. Here’s the command to slipstream realtek NIC 8111H driver into esxi version 6.5.
.\ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.5.ps1 -v65 -vft -load net55-r8168 -outdir C:\
Explanation on the parameter:
- v65 is the esxi version, you can specify other version as well such as v55 or v51
- vft tells specifically to connect to v-front online depot
- load net55-r8168 to load the esxi packages available on online depot. Use comma to load multiple packages. Here is the link the full list: https://vibsdepot.v-front.de/wiki/index.php/List_of_currently_available_ESXi_packages
- outdir tells where to place to slipstreamed iso.
Here is the sample output should everything going smoothly. Thanks for reading.
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