The Intel NUC Mini PCs are great mini computers to run VMware ESXi. Unfortunately, the image of VMware ESXi 7 doesn’t support the network drivers of the NUC 11th generation. A post on https://www.virten.net/2021/11/vmware-esxi-7-0-update-3-on-intel-nuc/ describes how to create a new image, with support for the network driver. I put this post here primarily as a personal reminder.
The image is build with VMware PowerCLI.
Now download the ESXi offline image and the network driver. Then … Read more.