Swapping physical discs is rare today. The modern and most reliable way to handle missing drivers is to create a custom installation ISO with the drivers already baked in.
You need to update a critical driver (like a storage HBA or 10GbE network card) on an existing host.
Use the official (formerly known as vSphere Update Manager) to add the driver to your base image.
If your ESXi host is already installed and you just need to add a driver for a new expansion card:
Swapping physical discs is rare today. The modern and most reliable way to handle missing drivers is to create a custom installation ISO with the drivers already baked in.
You need to update a critical driver (like a storage HBA or 10GbE network card) on an existing host.
Use the official (formerly known as vSphere Update Manager) to add the driver to your base image.
If your ESXi host is already installed and you just need to add a driver for a new expansion card: