I just upgraded the hardware in my home/lab box to use a new motherboard and Intel I5-9600k. No issues during boot, and all vms came up fine. The only hardware difference is that now I'm using 2 PCIE NICs instead of 1 PCI and 1 PCIE (no PCI on the new motherboard). Previously, I could disconnect a wire from either without any interruption. Now it seems to be stuck to the original PCIE card. If I pull that cable, everything freezes (though I can still get a ping to the vmkernel NIC). The other cable can be pulled without interruption. Both NICs show as active and they are both members of vswitch0 (the only vswitch). I don't know that it would make a difference but I run ESXi of a USB thumb drive. All my storage is iSCSI from a NAS. ESXi 6.5.0 Update 2 (Build 8294253). Also the USB port is v3.1. I seem to remember ESXi having issues running off a 3.0 USB port previously, but that was back in 2014 when I first built this host.
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