Unable to kickstart rhel 5.x clients using VMware VMXNET3 adapter in Satellite6

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It has been reported that one of the Red Hat customer was not able to provision rhel 5.x clients using VMWare VMXNET3 adapter in Satellite6. The same client will successfully kickstart rhel 6.x or rhel 7.x clients.

After troubleshooting, the Satellite6 Engineering team found that it is a known issue - VMXNET3 adapter is not supported in RHEL 5. After looking at the knowledge base resolution using the above link, the customer used an e1000 NIC driver and LSI Parallel SCSI drivers in vmware and reported back that they are able to successfully kickstart rhel 5 clients. If anyone has a better solution, please share below.

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