Broadcom (e.g., tg3, bnx2 series) and Intel (e.g., igb, ixgbe series) are widely supported.
For VM storage, ESXi 5.5 supports Local Storage (SATA/SAS), Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI, and NAS over NFS. 4. Network Requirements vmware esxi 5.5 requirements
4 GB of physical RAM is required to run the installer. Broadcom (e