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Realtek pcie gbe family controller driver windows esxi how to#

Creating a custom ESXi 5.5 iso with the drivers from ESXi 5.1.

Using a supported network adapter in a PCI-E slot (See above, regarding the Intel Pro 1000 network adapters).

There are two ways to make the upgrade work on your motherboard: You can get them here, with free shipping: I highly recommend the Intel pro 1000 series, they are fast, reliable and works on any OS out of the box (including ESXi), but they are a little pricy. If you don’t want to use the method below, you can always buy a Intel Pro 1000 network card and put it in a PCI-e slot. I did not have any problems, and have been running with this solution since I wrote this post (21 days ago now).

Some people don’t like to use “not supported” hardware this way, and others had connection problems on the VM’s after doing this.

Realtek pcie gbe family controller driver windows esxi how to#

In this post I will show you how to get ESXi 5.5 working with the Realtek network adapters. The reason for this, is that VMware removed the drivers from the new ESXi 5.5 iso. This problem has been verified to be the same with Realtek 8168 and Realtek 8169.

The problem was the motherboard that ships with an onboard Realtek 8111E network adapter. RAM: Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz, 8Gb * 2(16GB total) ().My two ESXi servers are white boxes made of the following hardware: The upgrade from ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.1 went great, without any problems. Yesterday I decided to upgrade my two ESXi servers from ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 since the update came out some time ago.