Hi Bob,
"During the upgrade process there were conflicting VIB's that i had to remove. "
What exactly did you remove, why, when (e.g. before update and with a reboot after) and how? Thru the command line. and i rebooted after. Just the ones that were listed as conflicting.
How did you update? I updated with a bootable CD. and I did not test during besides to see that the host was still active in vCenter until reboot. For obvious reasons now.
Do you have other hosts that are on the old 6.0 configuration and/or ones that are upgraded to 6.5 and see their NICs? If they are/were the same config then check what driver+firmware they are using. I do have one more that is identicle. I did look and they are broadcom 5719 and 5720 drivers. After looking it up it looks like the VIB net-tg3 3.135b.v55.1-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Broadcom VMwareCertified 2019-02-22 is installed. Is this not the case?
Thanks for the great reply. Appreciate the response.