Install i40e driver into VMWare ESXi
Objective
Environment
- ESXi-6.0.0-20160302001
- i40e
- Intel XL710
- Including vmnic{2-5}
Step
Check Status
1 | [[email protected]:~] esxcli network nic list |
- Please enable SSH daemon on the server
Download i40e driver and unzip
- Please download i40e driver from here first
- Unzip and transfer to ESXi
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11[[email protected]:~] unzip i40e-1.4.28-1331820-4075203.zip
Archive: i40e-1.4.28-1331820-4075203.zip
extracting: i40e-1.4.28-1331820-offline_bundle-4075203.zip
extracting: net-i40e-1.4.28-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib
extracting: doc/README.txt
extracting: source/driver_source_net-i40e_1.4.28-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.tgz
extracting: doc/open_source_licenses_net-i40e_1.4.28-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.txt
extracting: doc/release_note_net-i40e_1.4.28-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.txt
[[email protected]:~] scp i40e-1.4.28-1331820-offline_bundle-4075203.zip [email protected]:/tmp/
i40e-1.4.28-1331820-offline_bundle-4075203.zip 100% 141KB 9.9MB/s
Install VIB
1 | [[email protected]:~] esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/i40e-1.4.28-1331820-offline_bundle-4075203.zip |
Check NIC Status
1 | [[email protected]:~] esxcli network nic list |