Upgraded HP BL2x22c Gen7 blades from ESX 5.1 to 5.5 U3. Everything seemingly went well, but after the update only one of the VMNICs from my HP NC543i adapter is working.
5.1's driver:
net-mlx4-en 1.6.1.2-1OEM.500.0.0.406165 Mellanox VMwareCertified 2011-06-11
5.5's driver:
net-mlx4-core 1.9.9.4-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox VMwareCertified 2016-04-07
net-mlx4-en 1.9.9.4-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox VMwareCertified 2016-04-07
net-mst 2.0.0.0-1OEM.550.0.0.600000 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2016-04-07
Before the upgrade:
~ # esxcfg-nics -l
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
vmnic0 0000:03:00.00 igb Down 0Mbps Half 80:c1:6e:74:3b:e6 1500 Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic1 0000:03:00.01 igb Down 0Mbps Half 80:c1:6e:74:3b:e7 1500 Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic2 0000:02:00.00 mlx4_en Up 1000Mbps Full 78:e7:d1:08:aa:f0 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT26438 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 5GT/s - IB QDR / 10GigE Virtualization+]
vmnic3 0000:02:00.01 mlx4_en Up 4000Mbps Full 78:e7:d1:08:aa:f1 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT26438 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 5GT/s - IB QDR / 10GigE Virtualization+]
vmnic4 0000:02:00.02 mlx4_en Up 5000Mbps Full 78:e7:d1:08:aa:f2 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT26438 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 5GT/s - IB QDR / 10GigE Virtualization+]
vmnic5 0000:02:00.03 mlx4_en Down 0Mbps Half 78:e7:d1:08:aa:f3 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT26438 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 5GT/s - IB QDR / 10GigE Virtualization+]
After:
~ # esxcfg-nics -l
Name PCI Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
vmnic0 0000:03:00.00 igb Down 0Mbps Half 80:c1:6e:77:7f:2a 1500 Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic1 0000:03:00.01 igb Down 0Mbps Half 80:c1:6e:77:7f:2b 1500 Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic2 0000:02:00.00 mlx4_en Up 10000Mbps Full 78:e7:d1:08:aa:e0 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT26438 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 5GT/s - IB QDR / 10GigE Virtualization+]
(the before/after is actually from another server with the exact same HW/specs/config... I didn't yet upgrade it, thus the different MACs)
I'm unable to configure the new server's vmnic2 from 10000Mbps Full to 1000Mbps Full (or auto) using esxcfg-nics.
I tried using 2.3.3.1, 1.9.9.4, 1.9.9.0, and 1.8.0.0 drivers. Anybody able to help me out?