Please note that you need the driver in one of the following formats.
You can search for them in VMware Compatibility Guide section on VMware website, on the vendor website, on the website of ESXi-Customizer author’s ( - I have downloaded the driver net55-r8168 for my Realtek network adapter here) or using Google search (something like “ Realtek NIC drivers for ESXi” ).
#VMWARE ESXI 6.7 HOW TO#
How to Find and Download Drivers for VMWare ESXi?įirst of all, you must to find drivers for your hardware. Most system administrators use a third-party tool ESXi-Customizer instead. But is it very specific and requires vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). To customize ESXi images VMware recommends using official tool – vSphere ESXi Image Builder. In this example we’ll show how to integrate the driver for Realtek network adapter into the VMWare ESXi image. Let’s see how to add a driver to the VMware ESXi 6.7 installation ISO.
#VMWARE ESXI 6.7 INSTALL#
To install ESXi on such a computer, you will have to inject the drivers for your network adapter into your ESXi installation image. Indeed, the ESXi image doesn’t support most of LAN NIC adapters. The most frequent error you see when trying to install ESXi from the original ISO image on a desktop computer is ‘ No Network Adapters’. If you try to install ESXi 6.7 image on a typical desktop computer, you are likely to face the situation when you don’t have a driver for some hardware (RAID controller, video card or network adapter, etc.) in your installation ESXi ISO. Despite VMWare ESXi image is certified (supported) for most popular server models, it doesn’t contain hardware drivers for all of them (unlike Windows). In this article, we’ll consider how to add (inject) drivers into the ESXi 6.7 installation ISO image.
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