Create a custom ESXi image with the correct drivers injected and then rebuild the host using the custom ESXi installer image.Once ESXi was built, I went to configure the Management Network, however there were no connected NICs in the network adapter settings of the Configure Management Network section in the DCUI. In this instance however, I did have onboard NICs available, however in my environment these are not being used and hence had not been patched. Normally if you don’t have a NIC driver, the installation will fail as it won’t detect a network card. The specific card I was using was a QLogic QLE8262 CNA. Recently I was building an ESXi host that used a CNA (Converged Network Adapter) for all network and storage, including for the management network.
If you need to install drivers in an ESXi host, this is how you do it:
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