Well, I've been update many drivers lately. Not sure why after we updated the esxi 5.1 build patch from 7xxxxx to 1xxxxxx version, some of the drivers remain the same. Anyway, manual update is the best solution for some system that use variety of hardware's components.
Usually, you need to transfer a driver to the host first. For me, I'd unzip the downloaded file first (to get xxx-offlinebundle.zip) and then just throw everything inside the decompressed folder to the host.
The command to install/update the driver.
#esxcli software vib install --depot=/path/to/offlinebundle.zip
or you can use
#esxcli software vib update --depot=/path/to/offlinebundle.zip
To make sure the driver installed successfully, please reboot the host and check with this command.
#esxcli software vib list |grep <The driver's name>
To remove the driver
#esxcli software vib remove --vibname=<name of your driver, you can find with the previous command>
Don't forget to reboot the server every time you make a change to the driver.
And please enter maintenance mode before taking any action.
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