Well... apparently Intel is no longer making the Intel VT gigabit NIC's :(
And they decided not to tell us until last week :)
We had 15 new ESX hosts come in the door, all sporting the brand new Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter... And all of the sudden our builds were failing :(
I took a quick check at the HCL and saw the 82576 is clearly supported, however it is NOT included in the 4.0 update 1 installation media :(
A quick Google search and it appears that quite a few other people are having the same exact issue!
A result that popped up was- http://patrickvanbeek.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/slipstreaming-drivers-in-the-esx4i-install-iso/
I'll be trying that on Monday to see if I can get it to work!
