People,
I'm having some serious issue here after upgrading the HP Blade BL 465c G7 with Emulex NC551i Dual Port FlexFabric 10 Gb adapter.
The problem: After successful inline update from ESXi 5.1 Update 2 Patch 5 (2000251) into ESXi 5.1 Update 3 (2323236) the ESXi server cannot be pinged nor it can ping to outside network, therefore it failed to reconnect back to VCenter server.
Software/Firmware version:
Before the upgrade of the server the version are as follows:
~ # ethtool -i vmnic0
driver: be2net
version: 10.2.293.0
firmware-version: 4.9.416.2
bus-info: 0000:04:00.0
~ #
Since the version above doesn't work, I've managed to download VMW-ESX-5.1.0-be2net-10.2.477.20-offline_bundle-2541837.zip to upgrade the VMNic driver it into: 10.2.477.20 but still after the update and reboot the network is not ping-able.
Rollback:
I have also tried to perform rollback to the previous working ESXi server version 2000251 using Shift+R but the ESXi server still rebooting as 2323236 with no working network still.
Any other suggestion would be greatly appreciated without having to reconfigure the ESXi settings and Distributed Switch configuration from scratch.