Dear All,
I upgraded my Esxi to 5.5 on a HP DL 380 G7. After the upgrade was in place, the 10GE (HP NC523 SFP by Qlogic) network card resets again and again. If I use the Broadcom onboard NIC's instead, everything works fine. The newest driver is installed and the card is flashed with the newest firmware but no success. As long as the Card is not assigned to a virtual switch it looks ok, connected with 10000 full. If assign it to a virtual switch, it takes a few seconds, then the connection state changes to down, then the card is not shown, then it returns and shows "connected with 10000 full" and so on. The vmkernel log says:
qlcnic 0000:0b:00.1: vmnic5:qlcnic_process_wait_event:743:Timelimit up.
qlcnic 0000:0b:00.1: vmnic5:qlcnic_dev_request_reset:7213:Changed the adapter dev_state to NEED_RESET.
qlcnic 0000:0b:00.1: vmnic5:qlcnic_check_health:7819:Adapter not in operational state(Heartbit Failure), resetting adapter.
This happens again and again until I remove it from the virtual switch, then it stays connected.
The card is used for network only, not for any storage (iscsi or nfs).
In Esxi 5.0 no problems at all.
Any advice is welcome.
Kind regards
Peer