Comments on: Work with E1000E NICs in PowerCLI

By: LucD

LucD — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:46:09 +0000

In reply to Derek Seaman. Thanks for sharing Derek, great post and very useful info.

By: Derek Seaman

Derek Seaman — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 04:36:29 +0000

I wrote a blog post about how to integrate VMXNET3 and PVSCSI drivers directly into the WS2012 and Windows 8 ISOs:

https://derek858.blogspot.com/2012/10/inject-vsphere-drivers-into-windows.html

Works like a charm on our ESXi 821926 servers.

By: LucD

LucD — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:59:00 +0000

In reply to junkydoll. @Junkydoll, thanks for spotting that. The name has been updated.

By: junkydoll

junkydoll — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:31:36 +0000

Hi Luc, great site.

Not wanting to be picky, but your function name seems to be missing a zero …

Cheers

By: LucD

LucD — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:05:07 +0000

In reply to alpacapowered. @alpacapowered, thanks for the feedback. The inline function help lines were missing, that should be corrected now. I just did another test; I patched my server to the latest build, ESXi 5.0.0 build 821926. I created a VM with a vmxnet3 card and installed Windows Server 2012 on there. This time the VM with Windows Server 2012 comes up without a problem. So it looks as if there is a fix in one of the September patches for the problem that existed with VMXNET3 and Windows Server 2012. Unfortunately the patch documentation doesn't seem to list any specifics for these new Windows OS. In any case, I'll update my post with this new information. Then

By: alpacapowered

alpacapowered — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:09:13 +0000

Great script, but I have to disagree about the statement that the vmxnet3 vNIC doesn’t work with Windows Server 2012/Windows 8 even though that KB article suggests otherwise.

I have a couple of Windows Server 2012 VMs with vmxnet3 which are running fine on ESXi 5.0 U1 and latest patches.

Using vmxnet3 is also explicitly supported on 5.1 and 5.0 according to the official HCL:
https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=software&testConfig=16&productid=19174&releaseid=171&supRel=171,168
https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=software&testConfig=16&productid=13500&releaseid=168&supRel=171,168

Btw the line number annotations seem a bit off – I can only see 88 lines of code in your script.