Posted by on Oct 31 2017 (updated on Nov 15 2017) in. When working on my recent article,. I quickly discovered that there seemed to be some shortcomings when checking the device driver versions for some network adapters, such as those that are found my set of two. These SoC ( System on a Chip) servers feature two integrated Intel I-350 1GbE ports and two integrated X552/X557 10GbE ports, details as seen at the Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T. Googling around for results in these 2 VMware Knowledgebase articles right at the top:. Nope, that doesn't apply to any ESXi since 5.1, let's move on to the next KB article.
Dec 20, 2018 - Install the new driver. Download the 4.4.1 driver from the VMware website. Copy the file to the ESXi host datastore. Enable maintenance mode on the ESXi host. Use one of the following commands to install the new driver. $ esxcli software vib install -d driver.zip file. Nov 2, 2015 - It's gotten very easy to install this VIB, with the easy method right up top, featuring. VMware ESXi 6.0 ixgbe 4.5.1 NIC Driver for Intel Ethernet.
Alright, now we're getting warmer. In KB 1034674, I jumped down to the section entitled 'Obtaining Network card driver and firmware information,' and spotted this: In ESXi 5.x, run this command to figure out your network name (column 1): esxcli network nic list esxcli network nic list Now use the desired network name here, substituting it for vmnic0 esxcli network nic get -n vmnic0 esxcli network nic get -n vmnic0 This seemed very promising, at least at first. Then I soon realized that the detailed version of the igbn driver isn't there. On a whim, I also tried looking at Intel's readme for the latest. Nope, turns out those instructions don't show driver details either: Use esxcli, vsish, or esxcfg-. to set or get the driver information, for example:.
Get the driver info esxcli network nic get -n vmnic1. Get an uplink stats esxcli network nic stats get -n vmnic1.
Get the Netqueue stats vsish -e get /net/pNics/vmnic1/stats the output is just 0.1.0.0. Time to come up with another way. My way, not necessarily the best or only way. If you have a better way, by all means, let us all know by dropping a comment below! My alternative approach works broadly across many systems by simply looking for all drivers with gb in the name: esxcli software vib list grep gb esxcli software vib list grep gb Tada, there it is! Between each of 3 screenshots, I glean all I need, with a lot of detail, including hints about where the driver came from. In the next 2 screenshots below, you'll see I've run all 3 commands, on each Xeon D system.
Esxcli network nic list esxcli network nic get -n vmnic0 esxcli software vib list grep gb Let's have a look at the output of these 3 commands, for these 2 Xeon D systems. Example 1.
Xeon D-1541. Intel I350 1GbE - fresh install of ESXi 6.5 Update 1.
default inbox drivers. nic name vmnic0. driver name igbn. nic firmware 1.63.0:0x800009fa. nic driver 0.1.0.0-14vmw.650.1. nic driver vendor VMW What's up with the INT and VMW that comes after the device driver?. INTel.
VMWare I could also figure out all the same things about the 10GbE NICs too, using the same commands. But I use vmnic2 instead of vmnic0. Example 2. Xeon D-1567.
Intel X557 10GbE - already updated to ESXi 6.5 Update 1 EP04. updated I350 and X557. nic name vmnic2. driver name ixgbe. nic firmware 0x800005ad. nic driver 4.5.3-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585. nic driver vendor INT Note that this time around, I can see the basics of the driver version from the esxcli network nic get -n vmnic2 command this time, showing 4.5.3-iov, but slightly lacking in details, so I still used the esxcli software vib list grep gb command to get more.
Ah, so it's the device driver provider, that makes sense. Contrast that with the driver names for the VMW drivers, aka inbox drivers, apparently first provided with the indicated ESXi Build Number. In my 1GbE example above, that's 5969303. Looking that up, that means it's from. In my second 10GbE example, it's the older 2494585 released 2015-03-12.
In other words, this X557 driver family first arrived in the ESXi 6.0 GA days, which matches up nicely with exactly what happened. Hope you learned something, feedback left below is always appreciated! Web view of my Netgear XS708T ProSAFE 8-Port 10-Gigabit Smart Managed Switch Footnotes. In my Xeon D-1567 example above, you'll also note that I've got newer I350 igbn 0.1.0.0-14vmw.650.1.
VMWware driver and X557 ixgbe 4.5.3-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585 INTel drivers loaded, here's exactly those were loaded. The Intel I-350 is also known as i350 and i350-AM2. The Intel X552/X557 is also known as 10GBASE-T PHY, Intel X557-AT/ X557-AT2. Nice shout-out from Michael White, in his most recent installment of his weekly newsletter:. Nov 05 2017 by Michael White at Notes from MWhite My approach is short, just 3 lines anybody can paste into XCLI. An admittedly much more thorough approach is what Michael is referring to, it's the vDocumentation tool that my colleague Ariel Sanchez came up with, uses PowerCLI (download 6.5.0R1 ), all the details here:. Aug 16 2017 by Michael White at Notes from MWhite.
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