Hi,
I am aware Intel NUC isn't supported by VMware as a hardware to run on, but it does appear to be used a lot on home labs. I've come across an issue that appears to relate to e1000 network driver (according to Intel), and it involves the inability to wake the NUC machine via WOL (Wake-on-LAN) packet after it has been shutdown (via ESXi console or GUI). It works fine if you wake the machine up just after you switch the power on at the socket. But the minute you use a manual shutdown in ESXi, it will no longer wake up via WOL packet.
It has been raised here with Intel NUC:
https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D70P000006GX2K/cannot-wol-with-intel-nuc8i7bek-after-shutting-down-esxi-67u1?langua…
But the conclusion by Intel is that it is caused by NE1000 driver VIB used in VMWare.
Anyone else have this issue, or have any ideas how I could potentially solve this?