Hi
I like to ESXi on a new Mac Pro and connect it to a Qnap Nas with 10GB.
My question is : will ESXi reconnize the 10GB from SANLink2 ?
Anyone has experience with this kind of installation ?
Thank
Can SANLink connect to VMWare ESXi ?
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Carlos Damour
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19 October 2016
Venkatachalam Settu
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19 October 2016
Hi Carlos,
We do not support VMware ESXi with the SANLINK2. It would require a driver for the OS in questions which has not been developed by Promise.
Thanks.
P B
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19 October 2016
Hi Carlos,
You actually can (although it's not officially supported by us). Make sure to have the SANLink2 10Gb plugged in before you boot your machine. Thunderbolt is an extension of PCIe so the device needs to be plugged in prior to the machine booting up so it's recognized during the boot-up sequence and the built-in Intel driver from ESXi loads the modules/drivers for the device. I've only tested this on ESXi 6, 3620759.
1. In the vSphere Client, select the ESXi Host.
2. The Network Adapters will appear under Home > Inventory > Host and Clusters > Configuration> Network Adapters.
3. You can also ssh into the ESXi host to verify the network adapters with the following command:
[root@localhost:~] esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------ ------------ ------ ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:02:00.0 tg3 Up Up 1000 Full 3c:07:54:16:91:5c 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet
vmnic1 0000:0b:00.0 ixgbe Up Up 10000 Full 00:01:55:14:51:74 1500 Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10 Gigabit X540-AT2
vmnic2 0000:0b:00.1 ixgbe Up Up 10000 Full 00:01:55:14:51:75 1500 Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10 Gigabit X540-AT2
