Hi,
I recently decided that my home server was using to much power so I am making a low power one.
The components are:
Sapphire pure white fusion E350
8GB Kingston value RAM
3TB seagate
1TB WD
and a new HP NC380T
I fitted all of the components in 1U case with a 260W power supply.
Then I disabled the onboard NIC because it's a marvell one that's not supported and added the HP NC380T to the first and only PCI-e slot.
But when I tried installing VMware ESXI 5.1 it cannot find any connected NIC's?
So now I have no clue what I can do. I thought that adding a supported network card would help but apparently it doesn't.
I hope you guys can help me.
EDIT:
some more information: I'm installing from a USB to a USB stick and I'm using the standard ESXI 5.1 image but still I am getting the 'No Network Adapters' message...
Update:
Tried the NC380T in my destop and guess what it Can't find the card either... so I'm guessing the card might be flawed so I'm contacting the seller.
Update 2:
checked the led's, on Lan port 2 the link speed indicates that the speed it is at is 1Gbps even when there is not a cable plugged in!
Lan port 1 seems to work as it should but I also can't fin it with VMware.
Does anyone know what can cause this to happen?
Kind regards,
Kevin
