Actually in ESXi 6.0 there aren’t (yet) those kind of images, but only the vanilla or the vendor specific images. In vSphere 5.x there were also the rolling updated images but those may included also unproven drivers (or in some special cases may create some issues). With vSphere 6.0 something has changed: the legacy ESXi-Customizer may or may not work (see the authour post: because I won’t update it anymore).īut when it comes to installing custom drivers or creating customized installation ISO, other ways still works:īut in most cases you can avoid those type of problem at all: using the vendor customized ISO is one way to have most of new vendor related drivers. If you need to build an ISO with custom driver the fastest (but unsupported) way remain ESXi-Customizer. It seems that this is a known issue with I225-V Intel network adapter.

In case you need to build custom ISO with custom option this post could help you: How to Create Bootable ESXi 5 ISO & Specifying Kernel Boot Options. 2 slots, 6 x SATA ports (6GB/s), 4 x rear USB ports (1 x USB Type-C with USB 3. In previous post we have already see how add custom drivers to an ESXi installation ISO and how use ImageBuilder to make custom ESXi ISO, but in other cases you may need to define some custom settings during the installation or add custom vib files.īooting from CD is not the only way, but custom ISO could be used also for boot from USB or for boot from virtual devices (like the iDRAC or ILOE). Power on the nuc, wait until esxi is fully loaded. Workaround: Power off the nuc, take out eth cables from 2 ports. This post is also available in: Italian Reading Time: 2 minutes 6) Before the esxi would load up, we can connect to AMT, but at the moment ESXi kicks in the cards are going down again, and one can't ping the esxi, nor use the AMT.

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