I have Proliant DL580 G7 with the latest image for HP Proliant for ESX5.5 as below:
(Updated) HP-ESXi-5.5.0-Update2-iso-5.76.36
Name: (Updated) HP-ESXi-5.5.0-Update2-iso-5.76.36
I have emulex Adapters with driver as below:
elxnet 10.2.298.5-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820
In the vmkernel log I see below messages for this devices : vmnic7
cpu47:33706)PCI: 115: Device 0x7e5741096dfaeddc is not an PCI vmkDevice
Also when I run ethtool for vmnic7 it gives below error but for other adapters it works ok as below:
~ # ethtool vmnic5
Settings for vmnic5:
Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
Supported link modes:
Supports auto-negotiation: No
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: Unknown! (65535)
Duplex: Unknown! (255)
Port: Unknown! (255)
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: external
Auto-negotiation: off
Supports Wake-on: d
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
Link detected: no
~ # ethtool vmnic7
Can not get control fd: No such file or directory
Here is the output of the nic list
~ # esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------ ------------- ------ ---- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:004:00.0 nx_nic Up 1000 Full ac:16:2d:a3:6c:d8 1500 NetXen HP NC375i Integrated Quad Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
vmnic1 0000:004:00.1 nx_nic Down 0 Full ac:16:2d:a3:6c:d9 1500 NetXen HP NC375i Integrated Quad Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
vmnic2 0000:004:00.2 nx_nic Down 0 Full ac:16:2d:a3:6c:da 1500 NetXen HP NC375i Integrated Quad Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
vmnic3 0000:004:00.3 nx_nic Down 0 Full ac:16:2d:a3:6c:db 1500 NetXen HP NC375i Integrated Quad Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
vmnic4 0000:008:00.0 ixgbe Down 0 Half 90:e2:ba:2d:8c:54 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection
vmnic5 0000:008:00.1 ixgbe Down 0 Half 90:e2:ba:2d:8c:55 1500 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection
vmnic6 0000:00e:00.0 ixgbe Down 0 Half 90:e2:ba:45:d6:66 1600 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection
vmnic7 0000:005:00.0 elxnet Up 10000 Full d4:c9:ef:76:03:e8 1500 Emulex Corporation HP NC552SFP Dual Port 10GbE Server Adapter
vmnic8 0000:005:00.1 elxnet Down 0 Half d4:c9:ef:76:03:ec 1500 Emulex Corporation HP NC552SFP Dual Port 10GbE Server Adapter
When I chnage the driver to be2net it works fine so I guess it's an issue with the elxnet driver. For some other chnages I need to elxnet driver, so is there any solutin or workaround available for the above problem?
Thanks