On 22/10/14 11:58, Jonathan wrote:
Hi,
I'm delighted to see that the latest patch for ESX 5.5 U2 (released
October 15th), includes support for the 6,1 MacPro. At the moment we
are interposing an NFS server between our Fibre Channel storage and
our Mac Minis running ESX, which works well enough for the low volume
of OS X guests we are hosting. However, our aim is to move to using
Thunderbolt fiber channel adaptors. Has anyone got any pointers to
achieving this? It's not my field, but as I understand it Thunderbolt
presents a serial PCIe bus, and Thunderbolt/PCIe converters are
available. I presume the ESX fibre channel driver would need to be
"Thunderbolt aware" and that we cannot just use our usual QLogic FC
cards with a converter.
Many thanks for any pointers.
Jonathan.
To answer my own question, in case any one else finds this useful, we
have tested the 6,1 MacPro with a Promise Sanlink2 Thunderbolt/FC
adapter which shows up under ESX 5.5 as an "Emulex Corporation Emulex
LightPulse LPe16000 PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter" which is on the VMware
support list.
Jonathan.
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