Some servers are missing drivers when installing ESXis, such as finding me unable to find a hard disk or network card when installing Wave Server NF8460M3, and I need to add drivers to the ESXis installation package by myself.

Prepare Driven Packaging Tool

WMware now uses the driver packaging tool updated to PowerShell-based VMware.PowerCLI, while older versions used ESXiCustomizer which may have upstream defects in functionality such as EFI support.The following steps are detailed in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/gallery/installing-psget Specific instructions are provided.

Online Installation

1. Install PowerShellGet

List with this module:

• Windows 10 or newer
• Windows Server 2016 or newer
• Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 or newer
• PowerShell 6

I use Windows 10 myself, so I don't need to reinstall it.

2. Get the latest version of PowerShell Gallery (PowerShell Library)

> Install-PackageProvider Nuget -Force
> Exit

In addition, the updated command is

> Update-Module -Name PowerShellGet
> Exit

3. Install VMware.PowerCLI

> Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI

At the PowerShell prompt, check to see if there is a corresponding module:

> Find-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI 

Offline Installation

1. Prepare VMware.PowerCLI

Method 1: Download the appropriate module to the C:\PowerCLI directory (user specified directory name)

> Save-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Path C:\PowerCLI 

Method 2: Download directly from the official website at https://code.vmware.com/tool/vmware-powercli

2. Copy files to module directory

Execute the following command to view the PowerShell directory

> $ENV:PSModulePath

Copy the downloaded file to the directory of the results of the above command.
Restart and check at the PowerShell prompt for modules:

> Find-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI 

Packaging driver

The driver and offline bundle VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Offline Bundle need to be prepared before packaging the driver.Below are my own drivers and the ESXis offline bundles, which are described here.

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Offline Bundle:
update-from-esxi6.7-6.7_update02.zip
Driver is:
VMW-ESX-6.7.0-lsi_mr3-7.705.09.00-offline_bundle-8586101.zip

Start PowerShell and check

Administrator starts Windows PowerShell to execute

> Get-ExecutionPolicy

Check to see if "RemoteSigned" is executed

> Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Add offline bundles and drivers

Use the Add-ESXSoftwareDepot commandlet to add both the ESXi offline bundles and drivers as libraries.

> Add-EsxSoftwareDepot D:\VMW-ESX-6.7.0-lsi_mr3-7.705.09.00-offline_bundle-8586101.zip D:\update-from-esxi6.7-6.7_update02.zip

Verify that asynchronous drivers are now available as packages

> Get-EsxSoftwarePackage 

Where "" is an added third-party driver

List available image profiles

> Get-EsxImageProfile

Add Asynchronous Driver to New Image Profile

> New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile ESXi-6.7.0-20181002001-standard -name VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update01-10302608.x86_64-Inspur_Customized-A000 -Vendor Inspur

Modify permissions for new build profiles

Set-EsxImageProfile -Name  VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update01-10302608.x86_64-Inspur_Customized-A000 -AcceptanceLevel CommunitySupported

In the ImageProfile prompt, type: VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update01-10302608.x86_64-Inspur_Customized-A000

Add Asynchronous Driver to New Image Profile

Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile  VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update01-10302608.x86_64-Inspur_Customized-A000 -SoftwarePackage lsi_mr3

Export image configuration file to ISO file

Export-EsxImageProfile -ImageProfile VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update01-10302608.x86_64-Inspur_Customized-A000 -ExportToISO -filepath E:\VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update01-10302608.x86_64-Inspur_Customized-A000.iso