How to add Realtek R8168 to ESXi 5.5 Update 2 ISO. These are the steps to easily re-add the Realtek R8168 drivers into ESXi 5.5 ISO by making a custom ESXi 5.5 image. Alternatively I’ve also added the driver to my site, download the Realtek R8168.vib driver here. Simply copy the.VIB file to your location of choice, such as your desktop.
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i know most of you are ether running VMware ESXI or Proxmox for your homelabs. i always found it an pain in the ass to log into the vmware websites and download the latest ESXI iso when i need it. i came across an Powershell script that downloads the latest or any ESXI version from the repo directly . the script also allows you to inject / download packs and drivers from the vfront vmware page as well within the script. so this way you can get sata drivers for an desktop or an network card driver that may not be in the esxi iso by default.
you can download it here, https://www.v-front.de/p/esxi-customizer-ps.html
an few tips i have found is that if you do .ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.5.ps1 and have no flags, then it the script will build the latest iso which would be 6.5 with the patches as well. but if you need an older iso, you can use the -sip flag which is the show image profile option and will output an list of esxi versions that you can download such as 6.3 or even v5 if you needed to.
Background / Problem
- I have two new servers (Dell R720 & Dell R520) that I plan to install ESXi onto.
- During the VMWare Hypervisor installation, I'm told that no network adapters exist.
- Upon checking, I realized that the Broadcom NetXtreme I drivers are required additionally
- I have obtained the Broadcom driver software bundle from VMWare's web site
- I have installed PowerCLI on my desktop in case I will need it.
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Question
Most ESXi guides describe doing this on a server that's already been set up once, but I am installing ESXi on these boxes for the first time.
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How do I properly get these network card drivers into the installation process?
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I am under the impression that I may need to configure a custom installation package that includes these drivers (and use PowerCLI to do this) -- if so, how do I best go about doing this?
4 Answers
Which version of ESXi are you trying to install.. I think the drivers for those are now included in 5.1 (I might be wrong though).
Alternatively, you can try to use the Dell customized build of ESXi ISO to install VMWare and see if those include the required drivers you need.
Another way that can work:
- Download the offline software bundle for the NetXtreme I cards from VMWare.
- Download the ESXi Customizer software
- Extract ESXi customizer
- Run ESXi customizer as an administrator.
- Select the ISO file
- Select the .VIB file for the drivers
- Select an output directory
- During the installation, allow ESXi customizer to replace the VIB file
- ESXi Customizer creates a bootable ISO.
- Use the custom ESXi ISO to install.
A huge thanks for these tools as they are the only thing that allowed me to get this done quickly.
I'm going to wait to see how the Dell ISO works out and then try this one. I'll mark the answer as correct in that order of which one works.
References
Make this easy on yourself - get the Dell-provided ESXi images. Those should have all the hardware things you might need.
If you use ESXi 6.0 or ESXi 6.5 or newer, you must use ESXi-Customizer-PS. The Windows desktop app: ESXi-Customizer is deprecated.
ESXi-Customizer-PS is a free tool from the same author that runs under PowerCLI and you can also inject a driver into ISO ESXi install.
Reference: http://www.sysadmit.com/2017/01/vmware-esxi-instalar-driver.html
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