Now that ESXi 4.1 is supporting things like USB passthrough, one would expect there would be a (undocumented) way to attach a CDrom or USB key.
I have a situation where I want to install ESXi as per best practice, but the Blade that i'm trying to install on has only ServerEngine 10GbE NICs connected. From ESX/ESXi 4.0 there has been a driver CD with the required drives, but ESXi 4.0 had no way to install these at installation. I was hoping that the drivers would have been incorporated into 4.1 but they don't appear to have been.
As these drivers are the only way to get networking operational on the device, I am needing to find a way to install these drivers post install or to create a custom install with the drivers copied to the host at the time of installation for either automatic or manual enablement.
Has anyone come across a workaround for this?
If VMware expect to drop ESX in favour for ESXi, there really needs to be a way to add drivers in the same manner as the current full ESX installation process. If only one could press a function key to allows this ingest...