#VMWARE ESXI KEYGEN DRIVERS#
For many folks, this will not affect you and you are probably already using 100% Native Drivers but if you are still using or relying on VMKlinux drivers, this is a good time to consider upgrading your hardware or talking to those vendors and asking why there is not a Native Driver for ESXi? From a networking standpoint, there are other alternatives such as the USB Native Driver for ESXi Fling which I will be covering in the next section. You should also check with your hardware vendor to see if a new Native Driver is available, as many of our eco-system partners have already finished porting to this new driver format over the past couple of years in preparation for this transition. Before installing or upgrading, you should check to see if you are currently using any VMKlinux drivers, which you can easily do so with a PowerCLI script that I developed last year which is referenced in this blog post by Niels Hagoort. I suspect this will have the biggest impact to personal homelabs where unsupported devices such as network or storage adapters require custom drivers built by the community such as any Realtek (RTL) PCIe-based NICs which are popular in many environments. It should come as no surprise that in vSphere 7, the legacy VMKlinux Drivers will no longer be supported. Please use these recommendation at your own risk.
#VMWARE ESXI KEYGEN UPDATE#
This is not an exhaustive list and I will try to update this article as more information is made available.ĭisclaimer: The following considerations below is based on my own personal homelab experience using a pre-GA build of vSphere 7 and it does not reflect any official support or guidance from VMware. Having said that, here are just a few of the observations that I have made while running pre-GA builds of vSphere 7 in my own personal homelab. As with any vSphere release, you should always carefully review the release notes when they are made available and verify the hardware and its underlying components are officially on the VMware HCL, this is the only way to ensure that you will have a good and working experience. Given this is a pretty significant release, I think there are some things you should be aware of before you rush out and immediately upgrade your existing homelab environment. One area that I have not seen much coverage on is around homelab usage with vSphere 7. A number of folks in the VMware community have already started covering some of the amazing capabilities that will be introduced in vSphere and vSAN 7 and I expect to see that ramp up even more in the coming weeks. With the vSphere 7 Launch Event just a few days away, I know many of you are eager to get your hands on this latest release of vSphere and start playing with it in you homelab.
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