I am installing ESXi 6.0 on 6 Dell PowerEdge R440's They all have 2 default onboard 1GB nics installed as well as Broadcom 57412 Dual Port 10GB SFP+ PCIe Adapter and Broadcom 57416 Dual Port 10 GB E BaseT Network LOM Mezz Card. Both are on the HCL for this version of ESXi.
After installing 6.0 on the hardware, I went in to configure the network and the only NICs I see are the onboard 1GB nics. From vCenter all I can see are the 2 onboard nics. I thought maybe it was a Driver issue so I researched and found the vib file from VM to install the driver on my host. When I run the esxcli software vib command, it returned that it skipped the vib for the driver.
I run lspci and I find all 6 nic's in the list. I run esxcli network nic list, but only see the 2 onboard nics. If I go into my vCenter, I can find the additional 4 cards when I go to the host\Manage\ Hardware\PCI Devices and Edit PCI Device Availability, but that enables passthrough so that the VM's can directly access the ports, but that is not what I want. I want them in the vSwitch so all VM's use those ports instead of the 1GB ports.
Any suggestions\help would be greatly appreciated.