{"id":748,"date":"2015-07-24T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=748"},"modified":"2015-07-24T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:26:47","slug":"realtek-nic-8169-with-esxi-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Realtek NIC 8169 with ESXi 4.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tHi, ESXi does not recognize Realtek 8169 based network cards by default. So here is a little howto to enable these cards on ESXi 4.1. Simply follow the next steps and after a reboot the card will be there:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n\t\tDownload <a href=\"http:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/oem.tgz\">oem.tgz<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tTransfer the downloaded file to your ESXi 4.1 host trough SSH (e.g. with SCP or WinSCP)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tEnter maintenance mode:<br \/>\n\t\t<em>#&nbsp;vim-cmd hostsvc\/maintenance_mode_enter<\/em>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tReplace \/vmfs\/volumes\/Hypervisor1\/oem.tgz with the downloaded version of the file\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tReboot\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n\tHere is a nice link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vm-help.com\/esx40i\/customize_oem_tgz.php\" target=\"_blank\">how to customize esxi 4.1<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCheck here for <a href=\"https:\/\/vibsdepot.v-front.de\/wiki\/index.php\/List_of_currently_available_ESXi_packages\" target=\"_blank\">more drivers<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, ESXi does not recognize Realtek 8169 based network cards by default. So here is a little howto to enable these cards on ESXi 4.1. Simply follow the next steps and after a reboot the card will be there: Download oem.tgz Transfer the downloaded file to your ESXi 4.1 host trough SSH (e.g. with SCP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}