HP DL380 G5 PCI Mappings for VMware ESX

I’m installing VMware ESX 3.5.0 on 12 DL380 G5’s. I’m using the two integrated Broadcom nics and I’ve installed two additional nics. Both additional nics are Intel Dual Port Pro 1000s. My issue came in that It was hard to tell which nic was which from within VMware. It was easy enough to tell that the onboard nics were 3:0:0 and 5:0:0, but for the Intels, it was more difficult. And I could see an even bigger problem if I needed to additional nics into this server later as the mappings would get all messed up.

Anyway, I sat down with a DL380 G5 and one singe Intel Card. I put the card in a slot, went through the install to the point of seeing the network adapters and recorded the PCI info. The I would move onto the next slot and do the procedures again. The following picture shows my results. I hope to also do this on a DL385 G1 as we have ESX running on 4 of those also.