0.1.0.0
.vmnic0
igbn
1.63.0:0x800009fa
0.1.0.0-14vmw.650.1.26.5969303
VMW
vmnic2
instead of vmnic0
.vmnic2
ixgbe
0x800005ad
4.5.3-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585
INT
esxcli network nic get -n vmnic2
command this time, showing 4.5.3-iov
, but slightly lacking in details, so I still used the esxcli software vib list | grep gb
command to get more.5969303
. Looking that up, that means it's from 6.5 Update 1.2494585
released 2015-03-12. In other words, this X557 driver family first arrived in the ESXi 6.0 GA days, which matches up nicely with exactly what happened.