Many mini PCs with Realtek NICs are not natively supported by ESXi. Here’s the steps to install:
1. Install customized ESXI 6.7 ISO (ESXi-6.7.0-20220104001-standard-RL8125NIC.iso). The installation will finish but it won’t support VLAN.
2. Enable SSH on ESXi. Then scp the vib filenet-r8125-9.011.00-10.vib to the /tmp folder.
3. issue cmd “esxcli software vib install -f -v $PWD/net-r8125-9.011.00-10.vib”
Done
source:
https://github.com/mcr-ksh/r8125-esxi
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