HP ProDesk 400 G4 Desktop Mini PC with a Realtek RTL8111HSH-CG Gigabit NIC

While https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2020/03/homelab-considerations-for-vsphere-7.html states the Realtek will not work; I was curious to see where it would fail.

In VCSA 6.7 Image Builder, I was able to import the Realtek Driver and ESXi 7.0 VMware-ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-depot.zip
http://vibsdepot.v-front.de/depot/bundles/net55-r8168-8.045a-napi-offline_bundle.zip

Side note –
Looking at the 8 core i7-9700T tiny boxes, looks like Dell will be a no go too until the USB NIC fling as an ESXi 7.0 version.
Dell Optiplex 3070 Micro – Realtek RTL8111HSD-CG
HP ProDesk 600 G5 Desktop Mini PC – Intel I219-LM
Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q – Intel I219-LM

~ update July 26th 2020
Dell Dell Optiplex 7070 Micro has the Intel I219-LM – PDF

I took a 64GB USB drive and rufus-3.9 to make the custom 7.0 installer.
The install process made it though the disk and password windows. It then failed:

VMware ESXi 7.0.0 Installer
Operation failed
This program has encountered an error:

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Error (see log for more info):
Could not obtain nodule order from esximage db: Error (see log for more info):
The installation profile could not be validated due to the following errors:

VIB Realtek_bootbank_net55-r8168 8.045a-napi’s acceptance level is community, which is not conpliant uith the ImageProfile acceptance level partner

VIB Realtek _bootbank_net55-r8168 8.045a-napi requires com.vmware.driverAPI-9.2.2.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied with in the ImageProfile.

VIB Realtek bootbank_net55-r8168_8.045a-napi requires vmkapi2_2_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.

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