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Removing Earlier NVIDIA Drivers
To remove all the drivers:
Log into the ESXi server with root permissions.
List all the existing NATIVE ESXi driver modules. (See Step 4 in Installing NATIVE ESXi Driver
for VMware vSphere.)
Remove each module:
#> esxcli software vib remove -n nmlx5-rdma
#> esxcli software vib remove -n nmlx5-core
Reboot the server.
Firmware Programming
Download the VMware bootable binary images v4.6.0 from the Firmware Tools (MFT) site.
ESXi 6.5 File: mft-4.6.0.48-10EM-650.0.0.4598673.x86_64.vib
MD5SUM: 0804cffe30913a7b4017445a0f0adbe1
Install the image according to the steps described in the MFT User Manual.
After the installation process, all kernel modules are loaded automatically upon boot.
Please unload the previously installed drivers before removing them.
To remove the modules, you must run the command in the same order as shown in
the example above.
The following procedure requires custom boot image downloading, mounting and
booting from a USB device.