The drivers for some supported hardware devices are not included as part of the base ESXi image. These devices require that a driver be installed before the hardware can be used in vSphere.
Creating a custom ESXi image
How to do it...
Third-party drivers are packaged as vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs). A VIB file is similar to a ZIP archive, in that it is a single file that includes an archive of the driver files, an XML descriptor file, and a signature file. VIB files have the .vib file extension.
The required drivers can be installed after ESXi has been installed using the esxcli command:
esxcli software vib install -v <path to vib package>
When installing from a bundle or ZIP file, the following esxcli command...
