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When upgrading from ESXi 4.1 to 5.1 the upgrade failed. I am receiving a handled error:

There was a problem with the Network Device specified on the command line.

Error: No NIC found with MAC Address "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

I upgraded through a baseline image of the esxi installable from my vcentre server. Thanks!

deagh
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Were you running ESXi 4.1 on an HP ProLiant Gen8 server?

You suggest that you ran the upgrade from a generic ESXi 5.1 ISO and not using vSphere Update Manager or a package-based upgrade...

The only differences between the standard ESXi installation and the HP customized version are the management agents and a few utilities. The NIC driver versions are the same between images.

~ # esxcli software vib list | grep Hewlett-Packard
char-hpcru                     5.5.4.1-1OEM.550.0.0.1198610           Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18  
char-hpilo                     550.9.0.0.9-1OEM.550.0.0.1198611       Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18  
hp-ams                         550.9.4.0-29.1198611                   Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18  
hp-build                       5.71.3-1198611                         Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18  
hp-smx-limited                 500.03.02.10.3-434156                  Hewlett-Packard  VMwareAccepted    2013-11-18  
hpacucli                       9.40-12.0                              Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18  
hpbootcfg                      5.5.0.01-01.02.10.1198611              Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18  
hpnmi                          550.2.2.26-1198610                     Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18  
hponcfg                        5.5.0.04-00.11.13.1198611              Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18  
hpssacli                       1.50.4.0-5.5.0.1198611                 Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18  
hptestevent                    5.5.0.01-00.00.6.1198611               Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18  
scsi-hpsa                      5.5.0.50-1OEM.550.0.0.1198611          Hewlett-Packard  VMwareCertified   2013-11-18  
scsi-hpvsa                     5.5.0-68OEM.550.0.0.1198611            Hewlett-Packard  PartnerSupported  2013-11-18
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