Hi I have a HP C700 with 4 blades BL685c gen 1 and one blade BL465c gen7, all the blades have HP mezzanine NC512m cards installed in the ILO Management Software I can see that each blade has one port mapped on a HP 10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch . This card supports 2 ports, but I have only one switch module.
The problem is that ESXI 5.1 doesn't recognize the 10Gbe NICS :
~ # esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------ ------------- ------ ---- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:003:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:19:bb:3b:77:24 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708S 1000Base-SX
vmnic1 0000:005:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:19:bb:3b:77:2a 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708S 1000Base-SX
vmnic2 0000:007:04.0 tg3 Up 1000 Full 00:19:bb:3b:6b:4b 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5715S Gigabit Ethernet
vmnic3 0000:007:04.1 tg3 Up 1000 Full 00:19:bb:3b:6b:4c 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5715S Gigabit Ethernet
vmnic4 0000:00b:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:19:bb:3f:f9:70 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708S 1000Base-SX
vmnic5 0000:00d:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:19:bb:3f:f9:72 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708S 1000Base-SX
~ # esxcli system version get
Product: VMware ESXi
Version: 5.1.0
Build: Releasebuild-1483097
Update: 2
# lspci | grep "10 Gigabit Ethernet"
00:44:00.2 Network controller: NetXen HMEZ 10 Gigabit Ethernet [vmnic7]
00:44:00.3 Network controller: NetXen HMEZ 10 Gigabit Ethernet [vmnic8]
On the other hand I can see those network controllers in the lspci, but I don't see them as network adapters that I can use.
Any suggestions on what might be going on ? Thanks in advance.