ESXI intel c602 SATA controller pass through

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SSH to esxi host

Run lspci|grep Wells

Which should give two lines similar to:

0000:00:11.4 Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller [vmhba0]
0000:00:1f.2 Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller [vmhba1]

Run lspci -n|grep vmhba

Will give you two lines like:

0000:00:11.4 Class 0106: 8086:8d62 [vmhba0]
0000:00:1f.2 Class 0106: 8086:8d02 [vmhba1]

Find out which of the two controllers you want to pass through

Add a line to /etc/vmware/passthu.map

# INTEL Wellsburg AHCI #vmhba0
8086 8d62 d3d0 false
or
8086 8d02 d3d0 false  #vmhba1

Reboot the server and you should be able to enable passthough on the controller you added to the passthough.map

This should point to the file /etc/vmware/passthru.map rather than /etc/vmware/passthough.map

This should point to the file /etc/vmware/passthru.map rather than /etc/vmware/passthough.map

You are correct :-) its my typical - its hard to spell stuff wrong gene.

Perfect - thanks. FWIW, this all seems to be fine with ESXi 6.7 U3 and suspect the 7.0 will be no issue as well.