Technically, as long as it's this chipset the driver should work. Lots of vendor's slap their name over top of someone else's hardware. I got mine from NewEgg for $20, but now they're $32. Still alot cheaper than alot of other, "supported" hardware. They can be found here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833114074&Tpk=usb3%20ethernet%20adapter
The quickness of the driver development, just goes to show the amazing things that can be accomplished when we all pull together for the greater good.
You add the driver to esx by simply uploading the files to the driverstore. I created a folder called "tweak" in mine to house these drivers. (We haven't created the .vib file yet)
The devloper had to modify the existing usbnet driver included in ESX so that's why there's two modules in the forum.
First load the custom usbnet driver with:
vmkload_mod /<path to driver>/usbnetvz024
Then load the ASIX USB3 Ethernet adapter driver with:
vmkload_mod /<path to driver>/ax88179vz024
Then, if it's not already attached to vSwitch0 or you want to attach it to another vSwitch you can issue:
esxcli network vswitch standard uplink add -u vusb0 -v vSwitch1
or whatever your nic and switch numbers are...
You can't attach it to a vSwitch via the GUI right now since we believe the code looks for devices begining with vmnet* and these adapters get the vusb* name.
And never apologize for asking questions. At least not to me... I didn't know any of this 2 weeks ago either and only know now from a very helpful community at vm-help.com/forum
Hope this helps. have a wonderful day!