ZOTAC ZBOX Nano CI547

Zotac Boxes CI 321 + CI 323 are working with UTM Installer... newer Hardware like CI547 will not cause of the unsupported chipset...

so if you will run UTM without virtualisation between.. you can only use "older" models of zbox... like ci323...

Hi All, 

Thank you for your contribution to this thread. 

But i have bought a CI547, and must find a solution. I then have to use any forms of virtualization or go in another direction like PFSENSE until somebody makes my hardware compatible.

Cheers

Hi All,

the first NIC is Intel, the second NIS is Realtek.

For ESXi a driver is required for the Realtek that why only one NIC is shown. The driver can be downloaded here: https://vibsdepot.v-front.de/wiki/index.php/Net55-r8168

The following commands install the driver on the ESXi:

esxcli software acceptance set --level=CommunitySupported
esxcli software vib install -v vibsdepot.v-front.de/.../net55-r8168-8.039.01-napi.x86_64.vib

I used ESXi 6.0 working fine. ESXi 6.5 had problems with CI547's SATA chipset.

Kind regards
  Jan

Thanks Jan,

Worked like a charm!

Cheers

Thanks, you are welcome.

BTW: i encountered problems with the SATA chipset of the ZOTAX box on ESXi 6.5 but with ESXi 6.0 all worked fine.

cheers,

  Jan

Just FYI

have asked Zotac support if the new CI327 got other LAN-chips than 323 or 321...

answer is no... same LAN Chips.. (realtek)

so the newest CI327 is directly supported with the UTM installer...

another important Info from Zotac Support:

- All boxes which supports Intel AMT are having an intel LAN Chipset on Board (it is needed to support AMT).

i have checked and CI 547 and CI 549 have AMT support so an Intel Chipset on Board....

Lower modells like CI327 dont support AMT so Realtek on board which is directly usable with UTM installer.

Hi Zaphod,

Thank you.

Do you have any information about XG Support? Or does this only apply for UTM?

Cheers

Hi,

I have just tested both installations. XG and UTM. The system only detects the Realtek NIC and not the Intel 219 LAN Chipset.

So still no support for my Zotac CI547. Apparently i have to aim at running it on a ESXI where i can assign the one NIC to ESXI host and Firewall Inside, and the other one to WAN/Outside.

Cheers

Hi Eddie,

no more info about this... but now its easy to see which zotac model got intel Lan chips and which one not.. the ones with Intel AMT got at least one INTEL LAN chip..

those without AMT running realtek only...

hope you running the 547 well with ESXi 6.0 or 6.5...