How can we fix that? Well, I will show you below.
As usual, I jump on the hype train and upgrade my lab but this time I had a challenge! Where the updated NE1000 driver in U1 works for the new NUC Gen 10 it fails for the NUC Gen 8. Yesterday VMware vSphere 7.0U1 was released. These devices are not officially on the VMware HCL and have been developed to enable and support our VMware Community. This Fling is a collection of ESXi Native Drivers that adds support for various PCIe-based network adapters (See Requirements for details). The new fling below works! Update 17-02: A new fling has been released to get the nic in the intel nuc gen 8 back up for good!