Cannot activate 10GIG on windows virtual machines

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

VMXNet3 is greyed out while creating a new virtual machine.

Cause

Driver settings in vmware tools isn't set to vmxnet3

Resolution

Option 1

• Remove the existing network adapter and add a new one specifically choosing "vmxnet3" as the adapter type?

1. 1. Access VM settings: Right-click on your virtual machine and select "Edit settings". 
       
   2. Navigate to network adapters: Go to the "Virtual Hardware" tab and locate the network adapter section. 
       
   3. Remove existing adapter: Select the current network adapter and click "Remove". 
       
   4. Add new adapter: Click "Add new network adapter" and choose "VMXNET3" from the adapter type dropdown menu. 

Option 2 

• Make sure the network adapter type in the hardware configuration is set to use the vmxnet3 driver.

 

From the guest OS run the VMware tools installer inside the Windows guest OS

1. In the hardware configuration, the network adapter type is set to use the VMXNET3 driver.
2. Selecting the custom setup option, beneath VMware Device Drivers to install the vmxnet3 driver.

 

3. Reboot virtual machine.