4.6 (92%) 15 votes Yesterday I decided to upgrade my two ESXi servers from ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 since the update came out some time ago. The upgrade from ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.1 went great, without any problems. But this time, that is not the case. My two ESXi servers are white boxes made of the following hardware: • Motherboard: MSI Z87-G43 (• CPU: i5-4670K (• RAM: Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz, 8Gb * 2(16GB total) (The problem was the motherboard that ships with an onboard Realtek 8111E network adapter.

Adding Realtek R8168 Driver to ESXi 5.5.0 ISO. So if your homelab ESXi host only has these Realtek 8168 network cards, you need to build a custom ISO.

This problem has been verified to be the same with Realtek 8168 and Realtek 8169. The reason for this, is that VMware removed the drivers from the new ESXi 5.5 iso. In this post I will show you how to get ESXi 5.5 working with the Realtek network adapters. Some people don’t like to use “not supported” hardware this way, and others had connection problems on the VM’s after doing this.

I did not have any problems, and have been running with this solution since I wrote this post (21 days ago now). Livro De Imunologia Abbas Pdf Printer here. So i think it is pretty stable. If you don’t want to use the method below, you can always buy a Intel Pro 1000 network card and put it in a PCI-e slot. I highly recommend the Intel pro 1000 series, they are fast, reliable and works on any OS out of the box (including ESXi), but they are a little pricy.

You can get them here, with free shipping: There are two ways to make the upgrade work on your motherboard: • Using a supported network adapter in a PCI-E slot (See above, regarding the Intel Pro 1000 network adapters) • Creating a custom ESXi 5.5 iso with the drivers from ESXi 5.1 Putting in a extra network adapter was not an option for me, so I went for option two, and here is how I did it: Creating a custom ESXi 5.5 iso including the Realtek network drivers What you need You just need a Windows XP or higher computer, and the software below. Getting the needed software First you need to get the needed software.

The following is what you need to download: • The original VMware ESXi 5.5 iso () • ESXi-Customizer () • The drivers from the old ESXi 5.1 iso (save file and unzip), you only need one of the below depending on what model your network adapter is. • • Injecting the drivers and create a new iso file There is not a lot of steps to this, actually just a couple and it will not take long. Open the “Esxi-customizer” First run the.exe for ESXi-customizer to extract it. When extracted, run the program so you get the following window: Fill out fields Simply fill out all 3 fields. First one: Choose the original VMware ESXi 5.5 iso you downloaded from VMware Second one: Choose the.VIB file for you Realtek network adapter that you downloaded earlier. Third one: Choose what folder to use for working folder.