UCS vNIC Drivers

[dpatel00111]

Hello,

I am just trying to have better understanding of UCS vNIC and it's drivers for ESXi hypervisor.

I cam across 2 different drivers for ESXi hypervisor

1). Native ENIC driver version 1.0.11.0

2). ENIC driver version 2.3.0.14

Can some one shed light on purpose and difference of both ENIC drivers?

Thanks

[Walter Dey · Accepted solution]

Native ENIC (nenic) driver versions 1.0.X.0 are for ESXi 6.5 and later releases.

see eg.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/release/notes/VIC/3-1/b_CiscoVIC_Drivers-RN.html

and please use this tool to determine what you need

http://ucshcltool.cloudapps.cisco.com/public/