Soo basically i got a ubuntu server 14.04 running on Vmware ESXI 6.x that is running for a while and i try to add a new nic to the server.
But when i type ifconfig i don’t see a new interface
I’m trying to connect it to a router with dhcp route but I’m not sure what is the problem
-the ubuntu server
Have any suggestion?
I guess I’ll be the guy who asks, you did reboot the VM, right?
Ya i reboot a few time, to add a nic you need to shutdown the host…
I guess I read it wrong last night, I thought you were talking about a virtual nic on the VM. Personally I have never used ESXi but you should be able to run $ lspci and be able to see your new nic.
I get this problem with Windows based guest OS’s… Have you made a new network adapter for the NIC in your hosts settings? This is usually under the HOST → Configuration → Networking → Add Networking
Have you installed the VMware ESXI drivers for clients.
I’ve found the solution with
> lshw -C network
Sample of the output:
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:02:01.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 10:0c:29:35:ea:c6
description: Ethernet interface
product: VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller
vendor: VMware
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
Since the host detect the second nic, just add a configuration in network config file
/etc/network/interfaces
for exemple :
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
I thought it would auto configure the nic like on windows 
but i had no idea that the host was dettecting the nic at the beginning.,..
Tks guys