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# esxcli software vib install -d „/vmfs/volumes/Data-VMFS-20/Patches/VMware-ESXi-7.0b-16324942-depot.zip“

   Running Intel NUCs and other SFF systems with ESXi is a proven standard for virtualization home labs. One major drawback is that most of the available SFF systems only have a single Gigabit network adapter. This might be sufficient for a standalone ESXi with a few VMs, but when you want to use shared Storage or VMware NSX, you totally want to have additional NICs. This article explains some basics to consider when running USB-based network adapters with ESXi

# esxcli software component apply -d /path/ESXi700-VMKUSB-NIC-FLING-39035884-component-16770668.zip

   VMware vSphere 7.0 – USB Network Native Driver for ESXi

# esxcli software vib install -d /<path>/ESXi700-VMKUSB-NIC-FLING-39035884-component-16770668.zip

   VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0d – after you upgrade your vCenter Server system to vCenter Server 7.0.0c CPU usage continuously stays high on a single core CPU usage might spike up to 100% for hours the Workload Control Plane service causes the issue even if you do not have Workload Management enabled in your environment

  VMware vSphere 7 – to configure bootOrder for a virtual machine you have to edit the *.vmx file directly

bios.bootOrder = „cdrom“

In vSphere 7.0 the Windows-based vCenter Server is finally gone – time to move forward and get in touch with the Linux based Photon OS with the VMware vCenter Server Appliance 7.0

VMware vSphere 7 – when you try to install with a USB NIC only the installation fails at 81% with the following error message