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Dell Poweredge T30 SATA passthrough
Hello,
I’ve just purchased Poweredge T30 server. Inserted NVME and 4 SATA drives and installed ESXI 6.7 on SSD.
Now I want to passthrough my SATA drives to VM, but unfortunately ESXI doesn’t allow me to passthrough SATA controller (I even don’t see it in the devices list).
I switched SATA to AHCI mode in BIOS, but still no luck. All SATA drives are operational, double checked them. BIOS sees them as well as ESXI does.
Am I missing something? Is there any limitations in embedded SATA controller? Should I buy external SATA controller which supports passthrough? If yes, what kind of model you’d suggest, gents?
markmdbk
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February 15th, 2020 11:00
SOLVED:
If anyone meet the same issue as mine do the following:
add the line below into your /etc/vmware/passthru.map file:
# INTEL SUNRISE AHCI PASSTHRU
8086 a102 d3d0 false
Save file and restart ESXi.
This solution fully works on ESXi 6.7U2 on Poweredge T30.
DELL-Josh Cr
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February 11th, 2020 14:00
Hi,
ESXi 6.7 is not a validated OS on the T30. You could try a pcie sata controller.