MIssing 2 out of 4 NICs in ESXi 5.5.0 on HP ProLiant DL380 G6
Hi,
I am running ESXi 5.5.0 on an HP ProLiant DL380 G6 with 4 onboard network ports. I can see two of the network ports just fine when I run esxcfg-nics -l but I cannot get the other two NICs to show up. However, if I run lspci -v I see all four network ports.
Here is the output of lspci -v:
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller Network controller: Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter [vmnic0]
Class 0200: 14e4:1639
0000:02:00.1 Ethernet controller Network controller: Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter [vmnic1]
Class 0200: 14e4:1639
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller Network controller: Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter [vmnic2]
Class 0200: 14e4:1639
0000:03:00.1 Ethernet controller Network controller: Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter [vmnic3]
Class 0200: 14e4:1639
And here is the output of esxcfg-nics -l:
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MTU Description
vmnic0 0000:02:00.00 bnx2 Up 100Mbps Full 1500 Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter
vmnic1 0000:02:00.01 bnx2 Up 100Mbps Full 1500 Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter
Has anyone run across this, and is there anything I can do to fix this? This server is in production by a large amount of people 24 hours a day so if possible (probably not) I need to find a solution that does not require downtime. Thank you
I am running ESXi 5.5.0 on an HP ProLiant DL380 G6 with 4 onboard network ports. I can see two of the network ports just fine when I run esxcfg-nics -l but I cannot get the other two NICs to show up. However, if I run lspci -v I see all four network ports.
Here is the output of lspci -v:
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller Network controller: Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter [vmnic0]
Class 0200: 14e4:1639
0000:02:00.1 Ethernet controller Network controller: Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter [vmnic1]
Class 0200: 14e4:1639
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller Network controller: Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter [vmnic2]
Class 0200: 14e4:1639
0000:03:00.1 Ethernet controller Network controller: Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter [vmnic3]
Class 0200: 14e4:1639
And here is the output of esxcfg-nics -l:
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MTU Description
vmnic0 0000:02:00.00 bnx2 Up 100Mbps Full 1500 Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter
vmnic1 0000:02:00.01 bnx2 Up 100Mbps Full 1500 Broadcom Corporation NC382i Integrated Multi Port PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter
Has anyone run across this, and is there anything I can do to fix this? This server is in production by a large amount of people 24 hours a day so if possible (probably not) I need to find a solution that does not require downtime. Thank you
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No, we are just using the version from ESXi's website. I would think that since all 4 NICs are exactly the same and onboard, the drivers are already installed since two are showing up. Is this not the case?
Thanks
Thanks
I would always recommend the use of OEM HP version for HP Servers.
ASKER
Unfortunately there's no way for me to take the server down, copy the virtual machines off, reformat with the OEM HP version and then move all the virtual machines back over. Is there anything I can do to fix my currently running version?
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I agree with @gheist there has been a lot of issues with the NICS and HBAs that don't have the latest firmware, we have had a lot of issues after upgrading G6/7/8 servers to 5.5. Either use the firmware disk to upgrade all firmware (downtime required)
Release notes for SPP 2014.06.0 explicitly mentions that many cards were not updated by previous SPP releases...
Download here:-
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware/esxi-image.html
It contains all the drivers for HP hardware and software that communicates with the hardware.
have you downloaded additional drivers required by your nics.