Hello,
we use a backplane from Supermicro with 4x DC P4510 1GB with a Broadcom 9400-16i controller. The hard disks are recognized in the BIOS and displayed correctly. In the ESXI the drives do not appear after booting.
We use:
Fresh Installation - VMWare 6.7 U1
Supermicro X11DPi-NT
Intel Data Center Tool 3.0.14-400
Latest Intel NVMe VMD 1.4.0.1016 (we also try 1.3.2.8 and 1.2.1.15)
Broadcom 9400-16i (also try 9405W-16i) with latest Firmware P8 in IT Mode
Broadcom LSI msgpt35-08 Latest Driver
When we use the Broadcom Controller in Passthrough the Drives are visibel under Freenas. But they are not recognized as NVMe drives and are very slow. So I think it's a driver problem
What can we do....
Best regards
André