I posted this in the other newbie group but the membership in that group is less than 1/4 of this group. I hope this is not a forum no-no, if it is I am sorry
I am brand new to VMWare but have a little experiance with other Vitual software. I am trying to install ESXi 5.1 to get used to it and see if we switch our current test enviroment over from VirtualBox. I tried to install on a left over desktop for this test, its a new machine but not server class. Anyhow I got through the install but cant get connectivity to the router even.
There is one on-board nic (the realtek) and I tried to install an old 3com that I had laying around. As you can see the install finds the realtek but never even sees the 3com.
I tried to set the IP to static and the internal "Test Management Network" passes to its internal address but fails to everything else, even the gateway. The gateway is of course reachable by all other clients on the network
When I go into "Configure Management Network", "Network Adapters" it sees vmnic0 and shows its connected (if I unplug the cable, it changes to disconnected) this seems to show that the nic is working fine and the driver is loaded and this is the part that is confusing to me.
But I went to http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=io I dont see the device listed.
The router does not show the MAC addr for this device as connected of course
As I mentioned I am new but here is some of the comands I found that may help and their output
esxcfg-nics -l
name=vmnic0, PCI=0000:30:00.0, Driver=r8168, Link=up, Speed=100Mbps, Description=Realtek 8168 Gigabit Ethernet
vmkchdev -l |grep vmnic0
00:30:00.0 10ec:8168 1043:8505 vmkernel vmnic0
vmware -v
ESXi 5.1.0 Build 799733
Is the issue just that this NIC not supported or am I doing something wrong.
One other bit. I see the following in the syslog. Not sure if its helpful or not
jumpstart: execution of 'boot system load --ibmc' failed in context networking-ibmc[start]': failed to load ibmc in 2 tries.
jumpstart: execution of 'system module load --module iscsi_linux' failed in context storage-drivers[start]': unknown module 'iscsi_linux'
jumpstart: execution of the 'boot networking dvs cache upgrade" failed in context restore-networking[start]'
failed to read cachefile etc/vmware/dvsdata.db Metadata read error
If you can think of anything else that would help. please let me know but keep in mind I cant get network access so cant gather logs
Thanks in advance for your help
Steve