O sistema baseado em AMD APU está atualmente funcionando. Agora preciso pesquisar como adicionar mais unidades.
O grau de consumidor HW exigiu que eu fizesse alguns ajustes na instalação do VMware .iso .. Veja aqui:
The ESXi 5.5.0 Build 1331820 that came out yesterday, did not include any Realtek R8168 or R8169 driver in it. So if your homelab ESXi host only has these Realtek 8168 network cards, you need to build a custom ISO.
The most simple tool to use is Andreas Peetz’s (@VFrontDE) ESXi Customizer 2.7.1 tool. The ESXi Customizer tool allows you to select the ESXi 5.5.0 ISO file and include into it a new Driver in .vib format.
You can then download and extract the VMware Bookbank NET-R8168 driver from vSphere 5.1 ISO or download it from the following link for your convenience.