Last year at in San Francisco I bought two Emulex OCe10102 10GbE cards for my home lab, and used two Dell/Force10 cables to connect them together. One card went into my Dell PowerEdge T710, and one in my HP Microserver Gen7. Gfi License Key. However, things did not start well. I downloaded the driver and firmware from Emulex, and then flashed each card. I installed the Emulex driver on my ESXi host, but for some reason it continued to run dog slow. Like 10mb files taking an hour to copy across for example. I changed the OS on the NAS from to Windows Server 2012 R2, and then to Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2.

Performance was still terrible. In the end I decided to take a look at the ESXi box. Using: esxcli network nic list I could see that the cards were in half-duplex.

I tried to force them into full-duplex using ethtool but that didn’t work. After seeing lots of errors in vmkernel.log, I concluded the driver must be the issue.

This update includes a new device driver and utility for Emulex OCe14102-UX-L/14401-UX Card driver supporting Backtrack 5 R3 Iso Highly Compressed. Vmware ESXi 6.0 and ESXi 6.0u1. Supported systems. ThinkServer TD350; ThinkServer RD350, RD450, RD550, RD650. Supported Operating Systems. Vmware ESXi 6.0; Vmware ESXi 6.0u1.

Using: esxcli software vib list I could see that I’d previous installed two Emulex drivers, elxnet and lpfc. It was time for these to go. After, I put the host into maintenance mode: vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter I then removed both drivers: esxcli software vib remove --vibname elxnet esxcli software vib remove --vibname lpfc And then rebooted the host. When it came back up, I listed the network adapters again, and this time saw that the be2net driver had kicked in: Everything was fixed. A simple copy of a 1GB ISO took forty seconds using the datastore browser. Still not blistering, but that is down to the NAS (slow disks and a Celeron processor).

Dec 30, 2016 - This product supports the Emulex® OneConnect® family of adapters. The VMware ESXi drivers support the FC over Ethernet (FCoE), Ethernet network interface card (NIC), and Internet. Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocols. This document explains how to install the VMware ESXi drivers on. Emulex Drivers for VMware ESXi User Manual March 1, 2016 Table of Contents Avago Technologies - 3 - Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction.