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Updates to USB Network & NVMe Community Driver for ESXi 7.0 Update 3

11.11.2021 by William Lam // 16 Comments

Happy Thursday! I know many of you have been asking about the status and support for ESXi 7.0 Update 3 and the popular USB Network Native Driver for ESXi. It has taken a bit longer as Songtao (the Engineer behind the Fling) has also been extremely busy and was also recently on PTO. Although I know this is something folks use extensively, I do also want to remind everyone that this is provided as a Fling, which means it is developed and supported as time permits. I will certainly do my best to help get new releases out aligning with ESXi updates and as a reminder, a new version of the USB Fling will ALWAYS be required for major releases of ESXi, which also includes update releases.

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab Tags // ESXi 7.0 Update 3, Fling, NVMe, usb ethernet adapter, usb network adapter

First look at the Supermicro E100-12T

11.04.2021 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

I first came to learn about Supermicro's E100-9W platform last year, which I had first written about here. The E100-9W is a fanless kit that is part of Supermicro's Embedded IoT family and targets similiar use cases to the Intel NUC such as Industrial Automation, Retail, Smart Medical Systems, Kiosks and Digital Signage. Although the E100-9W was just released in 2020, it was actually using a much older Intel 8th Generation CPU due to some constraints with Intel's embedded CPU roadmap.

Supermicro did mention last year that a Tiger Lake-based model was in the works and last week, I just got my hands on a pre-production unit for their 2nd generation of this platform called the E100-12T.

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab, VSAN, vSphere Tags // E100-12T, Supermicro

Community Networking Driver for ESXi Fling v1.2.2

10.29.2021 by William Lam // 12 Comments

The Community Networking Driver for ESXi Fling v1.2.2 has just been released and is a minor update which enables a number of new Intel I220/I221/I225/I226 devices:

  • 8086:0d9f Ethernet Controller I225-IT(2)
  • 8086:15f8 Ethernet Controller I225-I
  • 8086:3100 Ethernet Controller I225-K
  • 8086:3101 Ethernet Controller I225-K(2)
  • 8086:5502 Ethernet Controller I225-LMvP(2)
  • 8086:5504 Ethernet Controller I226-K
  • 8086:125b Ethernet Controller I226-LM
  • 8086:125c Ethernet Controller I226-V
  • 8086:125d Ethernet Controller I226-IT
  • 8086:15f7 Ethernet Controller I220-V
  • 8086:125e Ethernet Controller I221-V

Categories // ESXi Tags // Fling, Intel

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