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ESXi 7.0 Update 1 now includes NIC driver for Intel NUC 10

09.21.2020 by William Lam // 16 Comments

With the upcoming release of vSphere 7.0 Update 1 and specifically ESXi 7.0 Update 1, support for the onboard NIC of the Intel NUC 10 (Frost Canyon) is now included and the community ne1000 VIB driver is no longer needed. If you had previously installed the community driver, you can uninstall the VIB after successfully upgrading to ESXi 7.0 Update 1.

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab, vSphere 7.0 Tags // ESXi 7.0 Update 1, Intel NUC, vSphere 7.0 Update 1

Comments

  1. Kyle says

    09/21/2020 at 9:12 am

    Do you know if by chance the Realtek drivers are added back in? I’m stuck on 6.7 U3 because of this.

    Reply
  2. Deckard Cheung says

    09/26/2020 at 8:08 am

    Hello, does it also work for other gen 10 pc with onboard NIC such as i219-LM? Many thanks!

    Reply
    • chrisling106 says

      11/28/2020 at 11:42 am

      8086:0D4D not included in the VIB! Hence it doesn't work!

      Reply
  3. Giovanni Vigna says

    10/02/2020 at 4:39 pm

    I downloaded the ESX installer today, but the the interface is still not detected on the NUC10...
    I am using: VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0b-16324942.x86_64.iso
    Is it the wrong installer?

    Reply
    • Jan says

      10/04/2020 at 6:44 am

      U1 was not officially released. Guessing end of October 🙁

      Reply
  4. Tarek Oberdieck says

    10/06/2020 at 3:03 pm

    Can you tell us the way to remove the community driver?

    Reply
  5. Mike7 says

    10/06/2020 at 10:09 pm

    Tried to update my NUC8i7BEH from command line (i.e. esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-7.0.1-16850804-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml)

    It booted up with a "No Network Adapter found" message and reverted back to v7.0.

    Reply
    • Danny says

      10/06/2020 at 10:36 pm

      +1

      Reply
      • Travis says

        12/07/2020 at 2:54 am

        #Get the ESXi Customizer from git hub put into the same directory (directory you intend to run this from)

        #Run the following from same directory
        Get-ExecutionPolicy

        Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

        Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser

        #Choose your folder here

        cd d:/nucesxi

        $baseProfile = "ESXi-7.0.1-16850804-standard" # See https://www.virten.net/vmware/vmware-esxi-image-profiles/ for available Image Profiles
        Add-EsxSoftwareDepot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
        $newProfile = New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile $baseProfile -name $($baseProfile.Replace("standard", "nuc")) -Vendor "virten.net"
        Remove-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile $newProfile -SoftwarePackage "ne1000"

        Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile $newProfile -SoftwarePackage "ne1000 0.8.4-10vmw.700.1.0.15843807"
        Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile $newProfile -ExportToBundle -filepath "$($baseProfile.Replace("standard", "nuc")).zip"

        .\ESXi-Customizer-PS.ps1 -ozip

        .\ESXi-Customizer-PS.ps1 -izip .\ESXi-7.0.1-16850804-nuc.zip

        #Nice sexy new .iso that works, Rufus that shit and pump it into your nuc

        Reply
    • Danny says

      10/07/2020 at 8:36 am

      see https://vdr.one/how-to-upgrade-intel-nuc-gen8-to-vsphere-7-0-u1-without-losing-network/ to get it working....

      Reply
  6. kurthv71 says

    10/07/2020 at 9:12 am

    That's annoying, that with the new driver the older NUCs won't work 🙁

    Reply
    • William Lam says

      10/07/2020 at 9:29 am

      Yes, its annoying but please remember the Intel NUC is and has never been officially supported by VMware. The fact that it has worked for this long with minor tweaks which I've had to push hard internally has been a nice outcome but if you don't want to see such behaviors, please share this with Intel on getting them to consider certifying the platform. I suspect given the typical "cube" is not Enterprise grade, this may be a challenge but the new Intel NUC 9 Pro has building blocks of a system that could potentially land on VMware HCL, but remember platform certifications is done by the vendors.

      Reply
  7. Brittan Smith says

    11/05/2020 at 9:07 am

    Tried installing 7 update 1 on the ASRock H470 and the NIC didn't come up. Was hoping the NIC driver was generic enough to support other SFF systems for home labs. Looking for workarounds.

    Reply
    • dclive says

      11/07/2020 at 7:40 am

      Same. Dead in the water with a Lenovo M80Q Tiny PC.

      Reply
    • Jörg says

      02/24/2021 at 9:57 pm

      Did you find another solution for the H470 ?
      Thx

      Reply
      • lucky nicolaidis says

        10/06/2022 at 4:44 am

        Running Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Controller on my desktop, trying to install esxi 7 for lab environment, followed instructions above but still get "no network adapters found", can you advise?

        Reply

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