IvLHu.png' alt='Esx Server 3.5 Serial' title='Esx Server 3.5 Serial' />Whats in the Release Notes. The release notes cover the following topics Whats New Earlier Releases of vCenter Server 6. Patches Contained in this Release. Motherboards and unsupported servers that work with ESX 4. ESXi 4. x Installable Lasted updated 2011. Go to Servers and PCs Motherboards. Last week, Microsoft announced the final release of Windows Server 2016 the bits can be downloaded here. In addition, Microsoft has announced that Windows Server. The default location for SolarWinds Server Application Monitor SAM logs is cProgram DataSolarWindsLogs. SAM was previously known as APM. VMware-vSphere-Update-Manager.png' alt='Esx Server 3.5 Serial' title='Esx Server 3.5 Serial' />VMware Homeserver ESXi on 7th Gen Intel NUC Kaby LakeIntels 7th Gen NUC is currently rolled out and after a resolved issue with the NIC driver, its time to take a look at their capabilities as homeserver running VMware ESXi. NUCs are not officially supported by VMware but they are very widespread in many homlabs or test environments. They are small, silent, transportable and have a very low power consumption, making it a great server for your homelab. Ive posted a preview of the new models about 2 months ago. Gen. 7 NUCs are available with i. CPU. Features. 7th Gen Intel Kaby Lake CPUUp to 3. GB of DDR4 SODIMM memory. Available with and without 2. HDD slot. M. 2 slot for PCIe or X4 Gen 3 NVMe. External Micro SDXC Slot. Intel I2. 19 V Gigabit  Network Adapter. Thunderbolt 3 Port USB CIntel Optane Memory Ready. The Kit is shipped with Chassis 1. System board. Processor solderedPower adapter for different countries. Power cord. VESA bracket. To get an ESXi Host installed you additionally need Memory 1. V DDR4 2. 13. 3 SODIMMM. SSD 2. 24. 2 or 2. HDD or USB Stick. Model comparison. Model 2. 5NUC7i. BNHNUC7i. BNHNUC7i. BNHno 2. Slot NUC7i. BNKNUC7i. BNKArchitecture. Kaby Lake 1. CPUIntel Core i. UIntel Core i. UIntel Core i. 3 7. UBase Frequency. 3. GHz. 2. 2 GHz. 2. GHz. Max Frequency. GHz. 3. 4 GHz. 2. GHz. Cores. 2 4 ThreadsTDP2. W1. 5 W1. 5 WTDP down. W9. 5 W7. 5 WMemory Type. V DDR4 2. 13. 3 MHz SO DIMMMax Memory. GBUSB Ports. 2x USB 3. USB 3. 0 back panel2x USB 2. Thunderbolt 3 Port 4. GbpsYes. Yes. No. USB 3. 1 Gen 2 Port 1. GbpsYes. Yes. Yes. Storage. M. 2 2. 2x. SATA3 or PCIe X4 Gen. NVMe OR AHCI SSDSATA3 2. HDDSDDSDXC Slot. LANIntel I2. V Gigabit LANIntel VT x. Yes. Intel v. Pro. No. Available. March 2. March 2. 01. 7February 2. Price. 49. 04. 002. HCL and VMware ESXi Support. The NUC is not supported by VMware and not listed in the HCL. Some components were accidentally listed a few weeks ago but their listing has been removed. Not supported means that you cant open an SR with VMware when you have a problem. It does not state that the device wont work. ESXi runs out of the box starting with the following releases ESXi 6. Update 3 Build 5. February 2. 01. 7ESXi 6. Currently there is no release that works out of the box because there is a problem with the network driver. Refer to the installation section for installation instructions. To clarify, the system is not supported by VMware, so do not use this system in a productive environment. I can not guarantee that it will work stable. As a home lab or a small home server it should be fine. Network Intel I2. V No Network Adapters Error. The network adapter does not work out of the box with any ESXi version, release prior to 2. Currently, only ESXi 6. U3, which is bundled with the net e. Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection 4 I2. VClass 0. 20. 0 8. Storage AHCI and NVMeThe AHCI driver for previous NUC versions was always available, but unsupported controllers were not correctly mapped to the driver. Therefore it was required to use the additional sata xahci package by Andreas Peetz v front. This workaround is no longer required. ESXi should detect all devices connected with AHCI or NVMe. There is a well known problem with NUCs running ESXi 6. AHCI driver. If you notice bad performance esxtop displays write latency over 1. SD Card. 7th Gen NUCs are equipped with a Micro SDXC Slot. Unfortunately, there is no driver available for ESXi at the moment so its not possible to use the SD Card slot. Tested ESXi Versions. VMware ESXi 5. 5. VMware ESXi 6. 0. VMware ESXi 6. 5. Delivery and assembly. The Box contains a short description how to open and assemble the components. The system is a little bit heavier than it looks and has a high build quality. The upside is very scratch sensitive, so be careful with it. The installation is very simple. Remove 4 screws on the bottom and remove the lid and the 2. The assembly takes about 5 Minutes to open the NUC, install memory, NVMe SSD module and a 2. If you are familiar with previous NUCs, you might notice that the 2. Installation. ESXi 6. No customization is required to install the latest ESXi 6. Gen NUCs. You can use the image provided by VMware to Install ESXi ESXi 6. Update May 2. 01. Ive replaced the Power. CLI Image creation because of a change in ESXi 6. Build 5. 14. 68. 46If you try to install any version of ESXi 6. No Network Adapters error. The error is caused by a problem with the network driver. While the problem has already been identified and there was a new driver in Build 5. Released 2. 01. 7 0. It seems that the problem has been tried to fix in ESXi 6. ESXi 6. 5. The net e. ESXi 6. 0. U3 has not made it into the official ESXi 6. To create a working ESXi 6. Get the latest version of Power. CLICreate a customized ESXi 6. ISO. ESXi 6. 5 U1 2. Add Esx. Software. Depot https hostupdate. VUMPRODUCTIONmainvmw depot index. New Esx. Image. Profile Clone. Profile ESXi 6. ESXi 6. NUC7 Vendor virten. Remove Esx. Software. Package Image. Profile ESXi 6. NUC7 Software. Package net e. Remove Esx. Software. Package Image. Profile ESXi 6. NUC7 Software. Package ne. Add Esx. Software. Package Image. Profile ESXi 6. NUC7 Software. Package net e. Export ESXImage. Profile Image. Profile ESXi 6. NUC7 Export. To. ISO filepath ESXi 6. NUC7. iso. Export ESXImage. Profile Image. Profile ESXi 6. NUC7 Export. To. Bundle filepath ESXi 6. NUC7. ESXi 6. Add Esx. Software. Depot https hostupdate. VUMPRODUCTIONmainvmw depot index. New Esx. Image. Profile Clone. Profile ESXi 6. ESXi 6. NUC7 Vendor virten. Remove Esx. Software. Package Image. Profile ESXi 6. NUC7 Software. Package net e. Remove Esx. Software. Package Image. Profile ESXi 6. NUC7 Software. Package ne. Add Esx. Software. Package Image. Profile ESXi 6. NUC7 Software. Package net e. Export ESXImage. Profile Image. Profile ESXi 6. NUC7 Export. To. ISO filepath ESXi 6. NUC7. iso. Install ESXi 6. The simplest way to install ESXi is by using the ISO and Rufus to create a bootable ESXi Installer USB Flash Drive. If you have already installed ESXi 6. USB NIC for example you can install the newer driver with the following command. You also want to remove the ne. Client. esxcli software vib install v https hostupdate. VUMPRODUCTIONmainesxvmwvib. VMwarebootbanknet e. ESXi Update with custom driver WorkaroundWhen you update your NUC with the workaround explained above, please make sure that you do not install the stock image provided by VMware. If you do so, the net e. ESXi 6. 5 will be installed and the onboard NIC will stop working. This also happens with ESXi 6. U1. Please use the procedure explained above with the latest Image Profile to create a custom update bundle. The Export Esx. Image. Profile Cmdlet with the Export. To. Bundle option allows you to create a. If youve already installed the update and vmnic. You have to use a USB NIC to copy the driver to the NUC. VUMPRODUCTIONmainesxvmwvib. VMwarebootbanknet e. VMwarebootbanknet e. Download VMwarebootbanknet e. The force f option is required because the working e. Performance. The performance of a single NUC is sufficient to run a small home lab including a v. Center Server and 3 ESXi hosts. Its a great system to take along for demonstration purposes. Currently, I run a 3 NUC Cluster that runs about 3. Networking configuration for ESX or ESXi Part 2 VMwaremine Artur Krzywdzinski. Few days ago I posted about ESX or ESXi network configuration uses 4 physical NICs  Networking configuration for ESX or ESXi Part 1 4. NIC on standard switches. Today, second part of the serial, this time ESXi host has 6 p. NICs 1. Gbps on Standard Switches v. SS. From security, Best Practice and my point of view 6 physical NICs is a smallest number. Having 6 NICs in a ESXi host will supply it with enough bandwidth, physical devices to follow networking Best Practice, security standards perhaps not for all organizations, failover  and gives more flexibility in ESXi network design. Scenario 1 6 NICs 1. Gbps 3 dual port adapters standard Switch for MGMT, v. Motion, VM traffic, storage traffic and FTIn our scenario we have to design network for 5 different type of traffic. Each of the traffic has different v. LAN ID which will help us to utilize all NICs for more than one traffic and optimizemgmt VLANID  1. Motion v. LANID 2. VM traffic v. LANIDFT Fault Tolerance v. LAN ID4. 0Storage v. LANID 5. 0vmnicport groupstatetrunkv. Switchp. Switchvmnic. Motionactive in mgmt passive in v. Motionv. LAN1. 02. Switch. 1p. Switch. VM trafficactivenov. Switch. 2p. Switch. Motionactive in v. Motion passive in mgmtv. Spam Filter Isp Quota more. LAN1. 02. 0v. Switch. Switch. 2vmnic. 3FTStorageactive in FT Passive in storagev. LAN4. 05. 0v. Switch. Switch. 1vmnic. 4VM trafficactivenov. Switch. 2p. Switch. FTStorageactive in Storage Passive in FTv. LAN4. 05. 0v. Switch. Switch. 2v. Switch. Motion traffic. Two vmnics, vmnic. NIC and vmnic. 2 from first dual port adapter are in ActivePassive mode. ActivePassive let us find the road in the middle, compromise between hardware resource which we have only 6 NICs and preserve for our environment full security based on hardware and network segmentation v. Motion and mgmt has different hardware and v. LANs ID  and only two physical ports are occupied by mgmt network. The v. Switch should be configured as follows     Load balancing route based on the originating virtual port ID default    Failback nov. Switch. 1 is designated only for VM traffic, two vmnics vmnic. NIC and vmnic. 4 from third dual port NIC adapter 1. Gbps x 2 reserved only for VM traffic, for 9. Switch. 2 here is a bit more complicated because  FT and Storage traffic are very demanding. VMware recommendation for FT and Storage traffic is 1. Gbps but I had implemented FT on 1. Gbps NIC per server 2 FT enabled VMs per server. This same is for storage traffic, you have to consider how much traffic you will need, how many VMs will you have per server, what type of workloads will you have DBs. WEB, file servers etc. In above configuration its possible to add even add one more v. LAN, for example DMZ. It can be placed in v. Switch. 2 together with VM traffic. But very common practice is separate DMZ completely on hardware and software level  from other traffic. Adobe Pdf Ifilter 9 For 32 Bit Platforms. Below diagram show configuration which was implemented many time on many customers so for sure it will work on Your environment too. It is logical diagram where all components and connections between listed. See links below for different networking configuration. ESX and ESXi networking configuration for 4 NICs on standard and distributed switches. ESX and ESXi networking configuration for 6 NICs on standard and distributed switches. ESX and ESXi networking configuration for 1. NICs on standard and distibuted switches. ESX and ESXi networking configuration for 4 x. Gbps NICs on standard and distributed switches. ESX and ESXi networking configuration for 2 x 1. Gbps NICs on standard and distributed switchesbox.