HI all,
This is my first post on this forum seeking help. I inherited a pair of ESXi 5 update 1 on a Cisco C460 M2 servers. The system comes with 4 on board network interfaces. Two of them are listed as
vmnic1 Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic2 Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
They are set as vswitch0 and works fine since I see them day 1.
I would like to use the other two interfaces to setup vswitch1 and access another subnet. However, I'm not able to bring up these two interfaces. I tried through the gui to force the speed. I also tried 'esxcli network nic up vmnic3', but they don't come up. Are these supported adapters or I'm missing some key steps?
The interfaces are listed as
vmnic2 Broadcom NetXtreme II 5711 10Gigabit Etherenet
vmnic3 Broadcom NetXtreme II 5711 10Gigabit Etherenet
On the switch side, the ports are set the same as all other ports which are also used by a number of servers with the same model and spec but not running ESX. The ports are enabled and showed as up on the switches.
Any suggestion is welcome.
Thanks
Will