Upgrade to ESXI 6.0.0 U3 from ESXI 6.0.0 U2 create complete connectivity loss in 10 giga bit NIC card due to incompatible ixgbe driver

[ukotdiya]

When I upgrade to ESXI 6.0.0 U3 from ESXI 6.0.0 U2 on my supermicro server with 10 gigabit (SM X10SDV-TLN4F-B mother board) the network connectivity get lost. This was due to U2 contains ixgbe driver from intel whereas U3 contains ixgbe driver from vmWare. How to fix this issue?

I am attaching screen shot for U3 ( black part) and U2 (White part of image) showing different drivers. 

[Finikiez]

Hello!

How did you perform an upgrade?

If you upgrade ESXi from CLU to preserve driver's version run 'esxcli software update' instead of 'esxcli software install'.

[a_p_]

The driver version on the Update 2 screenshot must either have been installed manually (it's an OEM driver, that's no in the official VMware image), or had been integrated in a custom installation image. Anyway, you can download custom drivers from https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/6_0#driver..., and install them with the update (depending on which way you are installing updates).

André