How to identifying Network firmware and driver version in ESXi host

To Identify currently running NIC Card Driver Version on ESXi Host with esxcli command line.

Login to ESXi Host through SSH.

1. 1.    Run command to obtain the Network driver type:

Command:-

# esxcfg-nics -l

or

# esxcli network nic list

1. 2.    Run the ethtool -i command to check the NIC Driver version:-

Command:-

# ethtool -i vmnic0

1. 3.    Run below command to get list of all NICs present in ESXi Host.

Command:-

# for a in $(esxcfg-nics -l|awk '{print $1}'|grep [0-9]) ;do ethtool -i $a;done