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If you start with an empty custom image profile and then select your ESXi base image, you will notice there are multiple VIB version packages to select from since patch release you had imported earlier actually contains four different ESXi image profiles. With an ESXi patch release, you actually have four image profiles: standard (includes VMware Tools + all bug/security fixes), security standard (includes VMware Tools + security fixes only), security no-tools (does not include VMware Tools + security fixes only) and no-tools (does not include VMware Tools + all bug fixes) With a regular major release, you only have to deal with two image profiles: standard (includes VMware Tools) and no-tools (does not include VMware Tools). There are a couple of ways to create a custom new ESXi Image Profile using the Image Builder UI, but the easiest method is to use the Clone workflow, which is especially helpful when you are selecting an ESXi patch release as your base image.

I personally prefer to use the Image Builder UI that is built right into the vSphere UI as part of vCenter Server. Due to the infrequency of this activity, many new and existing users sometime struggle with the process to quickly construct a new custom ESXi Image Profile.

ADD DRIVERS TO ESXI 6 ISO DRIVER

Yup Win8 as in Windows 8 :-P.Creating a custom ESXi Image Profile that incorporates additional ESXi drivers such as the recently released Community Networking Driver for ESXi Fling or Community NVMe Driver for ESXi Fling is a pretty common workflow. The drivers you want will be located in extracted format in the following folder:Ĭ:\VMWareDrivers\VMware\VMware Tools\VMware\DriversĪnd those mysterious VMXNET3 drivers ? they can be found in the vmxnet3\win8 folder.

Find the driversīrowse to the C:\VMWareDrivers folder to access the extracted drivers. When the process is complete, click Finish.

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Open a command prompt and change directory to the E:\ drive (or the drive you mounted the ISO on).Ĭlick next, and when prompted to provide the Network Location for the install/extraction, enter C:\VMWareDrivers and click Install. Once you’ve downloaded the ISO, mount it in Windows File Explorer and then create a folder on C:\ called C:\VMWareDrivers It will be the large file (114MB in this case).

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Go to the following link to download the ISO for your respective version.Īfter selecting the corresponding version of ESXi and selecting the Windows folder, download the ISO as shown below. I was using VMWare VSphere client version 6.0 on ESXi 6.7. to get the drivers you need, you need to do as follows: Why is that? How hard can it be to include drivers for your own product in an easy to find format…? If you go to VMWares’ website(s) or even search for the needed driver based on the PNPDeviceID (NIC) you’ll get lots of results, but no downloads from VMWare for this network driver.

click CANCEL to open a CMD prompt if further troubleshooting is needed.

click YES to retry (for example if the network cable was not connected).

a reason for the popup (no network connectivity).

I knew I needed those drivers as my pre-start execution script identified that there was no network, you can see the results of that script here: Try googling for the above and see how many ‘dodgy’ sites you get for the actual drivers. I needed to add NIC drivers for ESXi, specifically I needed drivers for VMXNet3 with the following PNPDeviceID. I use VMWare ESXi virtual machines at work and occasionally I need to add drivers to a new boot image.