I have a HP ProLiant DL360 G7 with an HP NC523SFP HBA in it to offer 10GigE access. It was working just fine with ESXi 5.0, but when I upgrade to 6.0U2 it stopped working. I have installed the latest firmware and driver for it, and according to the support matrix they are the versions that are required and recommend:
[root@esx2:~] ethtool -i vmnic9
driver: qlcnic
version: 6.1.191
firmware-version: 4.20.1
bus-info: 0000:09:00.1
What happens when I try to use the ports, is that they will work for about 4 minutes after reboot then just stop, without any messages in any logfile I can find. As far ESXi is concerned, it is still up, but it stops responding to pings, and access to NFS datastores that depend on it become unavailable.
Anyone have any ideas?
Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated.